Common Sense
$28.67
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
25 November 1982
Summary
Published anonymously in 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence, Paine’s Common Sense became an immediate best-seller, with fifty-six editions printed in that year alone. It was this pamphlet, more than any other factor, which helped to spark off the movement that established the independence of the United States. From his experience of revolutionary politics, Paine drew those principles of fundamental human rights which, he felt, must stand no matter what excesses are com…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140390162 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140390162 |
| Author: | Thomas Paine, Isaac Kramnick |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 25 November 1982 |
| Weight: | 108g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 9mm |
| Series: | American Library |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“No writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of sty≤ in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple unassuming language.” -Thomas Jefferson
“No writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style; in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple unassuming language.” –Thomas Jefferson
About The Author
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was born in 1737 at Thetford, Norfolk in England, as a son of a Quaker. He immigrated to America in 1774. There he published works criticising slavery and supporting American independence. He became very popular but returned to England where he became involved in the French Revolution. After that he returned to America where he died in 1802.
Isaac Kramnick is Professor of Government at Cornell University and has edited The Federalist Papers and the Thomas Paine Reader.
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