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Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America… (Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Bell, 1776; revised and enlarged edition, Philadelphia: Printed by William Bradford, 1776; expurgated edition, London: Printed for J. Almon, 1776: unexpurgated edition, Edinburgh: Sold by Charles Eliot/ Sterling: Sold by William Anderson, 1776);

The American Crisis, numbers 1-4 (Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Styner and Cist, 1776-1777); number 5 (Lancaster: Printed by John Dunlap, 1778); numbers 6-7 (Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, 1778); numbers 8-9 (Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap?, 1780); The Crisis Extraordinary (Philadelphia: Sold by William Harris, 1780); The American Crisis, numbers 10-12 (Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap?, 1782); number 13 (Philadelphia, 1783); A Supernumerary Crisis (Philadelphia, 1783); A Supernumerary Crisis [number 2] (New York, 1783); numbers 2-9, 11, and The Crisis Extraordinary republished in The American Crisis, and a Letter to Sir Guy Carleton…(London: Printed and sold by D. I. Eaton, 1796?);

Public Good, Being an Examination into the Claims of Virginia to the Vacant Western Territory and of the Right of the United States to the Same…(Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, 1780; London: Printed by W. T. Sherwin, 1817);

Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America…( Philadelphia: Printed by Melchior Steiner and sold by Robert Aitken, 1782:; London: Printed for C. Dilley, 1782);

Dissertations on Government; The Affairs of the Bank; and Paper-Money (Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist and sold by Hall and Sellers, Robert Aitken, and William Pritchard, 1786; London: W> T. Sherman, 1817);

Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791; Baltimore: Printed and sold by David Graham, 1791);

Rights of Man: Part the Second (London: Printed by J. S. Jordan, 1792; New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine, 1792);

Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation (London, 1792; New York: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf, 1793; Philadelphia: Printed by H. P. Rice, 1793);

The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Paris: Printed by Barrois, 1794; London: Sold by D. I. Eaton, 1794; New York: Printed by T. and J. Swords for J. Fellows, 1794);

The Age of Reason: Part the Second. Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology (Paris: Printed for the author, 1795; London: Printed for H. D. Symods, 1795; Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Franklin Bache for the author, 1795);

Letter to George Washington, President of the United States of America on Affairs Public and Private (Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1796; London: Printed for H. D. Symods, 1797);

Thomas Payne a la legislature et au directoir. Ou la justice agraire opposee a la lor agraire, et aux privileges agraire ( Paris: Ragouleau, 1797):; republished as Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly… (London: Printed for T. Williams, 1797; Philadelphia: Printed for T. Williams, 1797; Philadelphia: Printed by R. Folwell for Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1797).

| Top | Selected Bibliography - Books

Aldridge, Alfred O. Man of reason, the life of Thomas Paine. London: Cresset P, 1960 1959. J178 .V2 A8

- - -. Thomas Paine's American ideology. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1984. E211 .P153 A43

Ayer, A. J. Thomas Paine. NY: Atheneum, 1988. J178 .V2 A97

Brailsford, Henry N. Shelley, Godwin, and their circle. London: Oxford Univ. P 1951. PR590 .B75

Claeys, Gregory. Thomas Paine: social and political thought. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989. 178 .V2 C58

Dyck, Ian. ed. Citizen of the World: Essays on Thomas Paine. NY: St. Martin's, 1988.

Fast, Howard. Citizen Tom Paine. NY: Duell, Sloan & Pearce 1943. PS3511.A784 C5

Fennessy, R. R. Burke, Paine, and the rights of man; a difference of political opinion.The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1963. J176.B83 F4

Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. NY: Oxford UP, 1976. J178 .V2 F65

Foster, Paul. Tom Paine; a play in two parts. NY: Grove P 1968, 1967. PS3556 .O77 T6

Hawke, David F. Paine. NY: Harper & Row 1974. J178 V2 H34

Lewis, Joseph. Thomas Paine, author of the Declaration of independence. NY: Freethought P Assn., 1947. J178.V2 L48

Philp, Mark. Paine. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989. .J177 .A4 P45x

Putz, Manfred, and Jon K Adams. A Concordance to Thomas Paine's Common Sense and The American Crisis. NY: Garland, 1989.

Williamson, Audrey. Thomas Paine; his life, work and times. London: Allen & Unwin 1973. J178 .V2 W54

Wilson, Jerome D., and William F. Ricketson. Thomas Paine. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. J178 .V2 W56

- - -. Thomas Paine. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978. J178.V2 W56

| Top | Selected Bibliography - Articles

Barnes, Elizabeth. "Affecting Relations: Pedagogy, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Sympathy." American Literary History 8.4 (Wint 1996): 597-614.

Bindman, David. "'My Own Mind is My Own Church:' Blake, Paine and the French Revolution." Reflections of Revolution: Images of Romanticism. Eds. Allison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest. London: Routledge, 1993. 122-33.

Blakemore, Steven. "Revisionist Patricide: Thomas Paine's Letter to George Washington." CLIO 24.3 (Sprg 1995): 269-89.

Briton, Wesley. "Tom Paine and Mark Twain: 'Common Sense' as a Source for 'The War Prayer.'" Conference of College Teachers of English Studies 54 (Sept. 1989): 13-19.

Clark, J. C. D. "Religious Affiliation and Dynastic Allegiance in Eighteenth- Century England: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and Samuel Johnson." ELH 64.4 (Wint 1997): 1029-67.

Couser, Thomas G. "Autobiography as Anti-Biography: The Case of Twain vs. Paine." Autobiography Studies 3:3 (Fall 1987): 13-20.

Davidson, Edward H., and William J. Scheick. "Authority in Paine's Common Sense and Crisis Papers." Studies in the Humanities 18.2 (Dec 1991): 124-34.

Durey, Michael. "Thomas Paine's Apostles: Radical Emigres and the Triumph of Jeffersonian Republicanism." William and Mary Quarterly 44.4 (Oct 1987): 661-88.

Essick, Robert N. " William Blake, Thomas Paine, and Biblical Revolution." Studies in Romanticism 30.2 (summer 1991): 189-212.

Fruchtman, Jack, Jr. "The Revolutionary Millennialism of Thomas Paine." Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 13 (1984): 65-77.

Furniss, Tom. "Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)." A Handbook to English Romanticism. Eds. Jean Raimond and J. R. Watson. NY: St. Martin's, 1992.

Kates, Gary. "From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man." Journal of the History of Ideas 50.4 (Oct 1989): 569-87.

Mock, Sanford J. "'The Times That Try Men's Souls.'" Manuscripts 48.2 (Sprg 1996): 93-105. 

- - -. "'The Times That Try Men's Souls' Part II." Manuscripts 48.3 (Sumr 1996): 195-206. 

Pendleton, Gayle T. "Towards a Bibliography of the Reflections and Rights of Man Controversy." Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 85.1 (Sprg 1982): 65-103.

Popkin, Richard H. "The Age of Reason versus The Age of Revelation: Two Critics of Tom Paine: David Levi and Elias Boudinot; Essays Honoring Alfred Owen Aldridge." Deism, Masonry, and the Enlightenment. Ed. J. A. Leo Lemay. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1987. 158-170.

Roth, Marty. "Tom Paine and American Loneliness." Early American Literature 22.2 (Fall 1987): 175-82.

Rothenberg, Molly Anne. "Parasiting America: The Radical Function of Heterogeneity in Thomas Paine's Early Writings." Eighteenth Century Studies 25.3 (Sprg 1992): 331-51.

Samuels, Shirley. "Infidelity and Contagion: The Rhetoric of Revolution." Early American Literature 22.2 (Fall 1987): 183-91.

Wood, Roger. "'The History Is Concisely This': Thomas Paine's Account of the Peasants' Revolt." Studies in Medievalism 6 (1994): 5-20.

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