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The Thomas Paine Reader (Penguin Classics)

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This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine was once an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and in all probability the outstanding English radical creator of his age. It comprises all of Paine’s major works including Rights of Man, his groundbreaking defence of the revolutionary cause in France; Common Sense, which won thousands over to the side of the American rebels; and the first a part of The Age of Reason, a ferocious attack on Christianity. The shorter pieces—on capital punishment, social reform and the abolition of slavery—also confirm the great versatility and power of this master of democratic prose.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the most efficient works all through history and across genres and disciplines. Readers accept as true with the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and up to date authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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