Author:Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine
(1737–1809)

Thomas Paine

Works

Major Works

• Common Sense (1776)
• Additions to Common sense, 1776 IA
• The American Crisis (1776-1783) IA
• Rights of Man (1791/1792) IA
• The Age of Reason (1794/1795) IA
• The decline and fall of the English system of finance, 1796 IA
• Agrarian Justice (1796)

  Edition in The Pioneers of land reform: Thomas Spence, William Ogilvie, Thomas Paine, 1920 IA

• The Works of Thomas Paine, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to the Congress of the United States in the late war (1797) IA 1, IA 2
• Examination of the passages in the New Testament, 1807 IA
• On the origin of free-masonry. 1810 IA
• The theological works of Thomas Paine, 1818 IA
  • Appendix to the Theological works of Thomas Paine, 1820 IA
• Political and miscellaneous works, 1819 IA 1, IA 2
• The theological, miscellaneous, and poetical works of Thomas Paine: also, a letter to George Washington, and letters to the citizens of the United States, after an absence of fifteen years; to which is added the will of Thomas Paine, 1844 IA
• The Writings of Thomas Paine (1894–96). Conway, Moncure Daniel (ed.). 4 vols.
  • Volume 1: (transcription project)
  • Volume 2: (transcription project)
  • Volume 3: (transcription project)
  • Volume 4: (transcription project)

Articles

• African Slavery in America (1775)
• Reflections on Unhappy Marriages (1775)
• An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex (1775)
• Dissertation on First-principles of Government (1795) (transcription project)
• The Existence of God (1797)
• Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion and the Superiority of the Former over the Latter (1804)

Poems

• Liberty Tree (1775)

Letters

• A letter addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the affairs of North-America: in which the mistakes in the Abbe's account of the revolution of America are corrected and cleared up, 1782 IA
• A letter to the Earl of Shelburne, on his speech, July 10th, 1782, respecting the acknowledgement of American independence, 1791 IA
• Letter addressed to the addressers, on the late proclamation, 1792 (short work) IA
• A letter to the Hon. Thomas Erskine, on the prosecution of Thomas Williams, for publishing The age of reason, 1797 IA
• Two letters : being a correspondence between Andrew A. Dean of New-Rochelle, and Thomas Paine, 1823 IA

Works about Paine

Encyclopedia articles

• "Paine, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Paine, Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Paine, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

On his works

• Considerations on Mr Paine's pamphlet on the rights of man, 1791 IA
• A rod in brine, or, A tickler for Tom Paine, 1792 IA