Common Sense (The Writings of Thomas Paine) - Softcover

Thomas Paine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603863842 ISBN 13: 9781603863841

Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

An Unabridged Edition from 'The Writings of Thomas Paine,' Volume One, (1774-1779) edited by Moncure Conway, to include: Epistle to Quakers, A Letter to Franklin in Paris (1778), The Dream Interpreted, A Serious Thought, and Explanatory Notice from an 1848 Uncensored Edition, with A Chronology of Paine's Life at Book's End.

About this title

Review:

"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 was born in1737 at Thetford, Norfolk in England, as a son of a Quaker. He immigrated to America in 1774. There he published works criticising the 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 of The Federalist Papers and the Thomas Paine Reader.

About this edition

• Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1603863842
• ISBN 13: 9781603863841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108
• Editor: Moncure Daniel Conway