Thomas Paine's Common Sense (Illustrated) (Unique Classics)

by Thomas Paine

Overview

Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. This Nook edition has easily accessible chapters through links in the Table of Contents. There are portraits of Thomas Paine by Auguste Millière and Laurent Dabos, images of the original Common Sense pamphlets and a photograph of Thomas Paine's death mask.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014320511
Publisher:	Unique Classics
Publication date:	03/12/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	927 KB

About the Author

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) was an English American author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination.