Common Sense
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Thomas Paine
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them.
Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself from British rule and set up an independent republican government.
Savagely attacking hereditary kingship and aristocratic institutions, Paine urged a new beginning for his adopted country in which personal freedom and social equality would be upheld and economic and cultural progress encouraged.
His pamphlet was the first to speak directly to a mass audience—it went through fifty-six editions within a year of publication—and its assertive and often caustic style both embodied the democratic spirit he advocated, and converted thousands of citizens to the cause of American independence.
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Common Sense Modern Library 2026 -
常识（赠英文原版） 2019 -
常识 2017 -
常识 北京联合出版公司 2016 -
常识 北京大学出版社 2015 -
常识 上海译文出版社 2015 -
常识 民主与建设出版社 2015 -
常识 译林出版社 2015 -
常识 商务印书馆 2015 -
常识 中华书局 2013 -
常识(英汉双语对照) 2013 -
常识 译林出版社 2012 -
常识 哈尔滨出版社 2012 -
常识 中国对外翻译出版社 2010 -
Common Sense Penguin 2005 -
Common Sense Penguin 2004 -
常识 华夏出版社 2004 -
Common Sense and Other Writings Modern Library 2003 -
Common Sense, the Rights of Man Signet Classics 2001 -
Common Sense Dover Publications Inc. 1997