Thomas Paine Reader

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780140444964
  • 30 juli 1987
  • 544 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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Demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine was an inspiration to Americans in their struggle for independence. This book contains Paine's major works including "The Rights of Man", "Common Sense", and the first part of "The Age of Reason".



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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Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
30 juli 1987
Aantal pagina's
544
Illustraties
Nee

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Hoofdauteur
Thomas Paine
Hoofdredacteur
Isaac Kramnick
Tweede Redacteur
Michael Foot
Hoofduitgeverij
Penguin Classics

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Product breedte
133 mm
Product hoogte
32 mm
Product lengte
197 mm
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Ja
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117 mm
Verpakking hoogte
30 mm
Verpakking lengte
192 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
561 g

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