The Collected Works
Revolutionary Writings on Natural Rights, Democratic Reform, Religious Inquiry, and Social JusticeBy Thomas Paine
Length77h 16m
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The Collected Works of Thomas Paine gathers the principal political, philosophical, and religious writings of one of the eighteenth century's most forceful public intellectuals. From the electrifying republican rhetoric of Common Sense and The American Crisis to the constitutional arguments of Rights of Man, Paine writes in a lucid, direct prose designed to bring abstract principles before a broad reading public. His later works, including The Age of Reason and Agrarian Justice, extend this democratic project into religious criticism and social reform, challenging inherited authority while defending human reason, economic justice, and universal rights. Read together, these texts reveal the intellectual continuities between revolutionary pamphleteering, Enlightenment critique, and the emergence of modern popular political discourse. Born in England and formed by experiences of political inequality, occupational hardship, and transatlantic intellectual exchange, Paine became an exceptional voice of the American and French Revolutions. His associations with Benjamin Franklin and leading revolutionaries, combined with his distrust of monarchy, aristocracy, and established churches, shaped a program grounded in natural rights and civic participation. He wrote not from academic detachment but from an urgent conviction that political language should serve ordinary people. This collection is essential for readers seeking to understand the ideological foundations of modern democracy and the contested meanings of liberty, equality, and revolution. It also rewards study as a model of persuasive prose: concise, polemical, and deliberately accessible. Scholars, students, and general readers alike will find in Paine's works both a historical record of revolutionary politics and a continuing challenge to complacent power.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length77 hrs 16 mins
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Publish dateDec 13, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including "The Life of Thomas Paine") (Annotated)
2The Essential Works of Thomas Paine
3Notable Works
4Common Sense
5The American Crisis (pt. 1)
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6The American Crisis (pt. 2)
7The American Crisis (pt. 3)
8The American Crisis (pt. 4)
9The Rights of Man
10PART I (pt. 1)
11PART I (pt. 2)
12PART II
13Chapter I
14Chapter II
15Chapter III
16Chapter IV
17Chapter V (pt. 1)
18Chapter V (pt. 2)
19The Age of Reason (pt. 1)
20The Age of Reason (pt. 2)
21The Age of Reason (pt. 3)
22Other Works
23Introduction With Historical Notes And Documents
24The Republican Proclamation
25To The Authors of "Le Républicain."
26To The Abbé Sièyes
27To The Attorney General
28To Mr. Secretary Dundas
29Letters To Onslow Cranley
30To The Sheriff Of The County Of Sussex
31To Mr. Secretary Dundas
32Letter Addressed To The Addressers On The Late Proclamation
33Address To The People Of France
34Anti-monarchal Essay. For The Use Of New Republicans
35To The Attorney General, On The Prosecution Against The Second Part
36On The Propriety Of Bringing Louis XVI To Trial
37Reasons For Preserving The Life Of Louis Capet
38Shall Louis XVI Have Respite?
39Declaration Of Rights
40Private Letters To Jefferson
41Letter To Danton
42A Citizen Of America To The Citizens Of Europe
43Appeal To The Convention
44The Memorial To Monroe (pt. 1)
45The Memorial To Monroe (pt. 2)
46Letter To George Washington
47Observations
48Dissertation On First Principles Of Government
49The Constitution Of 1795
50The Decline And Fall Of The English System Of Finance
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