The Thomas Paine Reader

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781604591392
  • 14 november 2007
  • 536 pagina's
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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was born in England in 1737 and worked as a schoolteacher, storekeeper, and customs inspector before moving to Philadelphia in 1774. He quickly acquired a reputation as a journalist and published his hugely successful and influential pamphlet Common Sense in 1776. The Crisis, written when Paine was a soldier in the darkest days of the revolution—with its famous opening words, “These are the times that try men’s souls”—called for perseverance and prevented Washington’s army from disintegrating. To honor him for defending the French Revolution in Rights of Man, France made him a citizen and elected him to their constitutional convention. He died in 1809.

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This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's major works including The 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 part of The Age of Reason (Part One), 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.

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14 november 2007
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536
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Thomas Paine
Tweede Auteur
Michael Foot
Co Auteur
Isaac Kramnick
Hoofdredacteur
Michael Foot
Tweede Redacteur
Isaac Kramnick
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A & D Publishing

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Product breedte
152 mm
Product hoogte
33 mm
Product lengte
229 mm
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152 mm
Verpakking hoogte
34 mm
Verpakking lengte
229 mm
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953 g

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