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 (pt. 1)
13PART II (pt. 2)
14PART II (pt. 3)
15The Age of Reason (pt. 1)
16The Age of Reason (pt. 2)
17The Age of Reason (pt. 3)
18Other Works
19Introduction With Historical Notes And Documents
20The Republican Proclamation
21To The Authors of "Le Républicain."
22To The Abbé Sièyes
23To The Attorney General
24To Mr. Secretary Dundas
25Letters To Onslow Cranley
26To The Sheriff Of The County Of Sussex
27To Mr. Secretary Dundas
28Letter Addressed To The Addressers On The Late Proclamation
29Address To The People Of France
30Anti-monarchal Essay. For The Use Of New Republicans
31To The Attorney General, On The Prosecution Against The Second Part
32On The Propriety Of Bringing Louis XVI To Trial
33Reasons For Preserving The Life Of Louis Capet
34Shall Louis XVI Have Respite?
35Declaration Of Rights
36Private Letters To Jefferson
37Letter To Danton
38A Citizen Of America To The Citizens Of Europe
39Appeal To The Convention
40The Memorial To Monroe (pt. 1)
41The Memorial To Monroe (pt. 2)
42Letter To George Washington
43Observations
44Dissertation On First Principles Of Government
45The Constitution Of 1795
46The Decline And Fall Of The English System Of Finance
47Forgetfulness
48Agrarian Justice
49The Eighteenth Fructidor
50The Recall Of Monroe
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