THE LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE -- VOLUMES 1 & 2

This edition is an edited reprint of the 1892 edition by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
© 1983 by Chelsea House Publishers

The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
The Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine
Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
Plain Truth, Addressed to the Inhabitants on America, Containing Remarks on a Late Pamphlet, Intitled Common Sense, by Candidus (James Chalmer)

Contents of Volume 1:

• Introduction by Professor Eric Foner, The City University of New York

• Preface

• I.  Early Influences (1736-1756)

• II.  Early Struggles (1756-1774)

• III.  Domestic Trouble (1774)

• IV.  The New World (1775)

• V.  Liberty and Equality (1775)

• VI.  "Common Sense" (1776)

• VII.  Under the Banner of Independence (1776-1777)

• VIII.  Soldier and Secretary (1777-1778)

• IX.  French Aid, and the Paine-Deane Controversy (1778-79)

• X.  A Story by Gouverneur Morris (1779)

• XI.  Cause, Country, Self (1779-1780)

• XII.  A Journey to France (1780-1781)

• XIII.  The Muzzled Ox Treading Out the Grain (1781-1783)

• XIV.  Great Washington and Poor Paine (1783-1785)

• XV.  Pontifical and Political Inventions (1785-1787)

• XVI.  Returning to the Old Home (1787-1788)

• XVII.  A British Lion with an American Heart (1788-1789)

• XVIII.  Paine's Letters to Jefferson in Paris (1788-1789)

• XIX.  The Key of the Bastille (1789-1790)

• XX.  "The Rights of Man" (1790-1791)

• XXI.  Founding the European Republic (1791)

• XXII.  The Right of Evolution (1792)

• XXIII.  The Deputy for Calais in the Convention (1792)

• XXIV.  Outlawed in England (1792-1793)

Contents of Volume II:

• I.  "Kill the King, but Not the Man" (1793)

• II.  An Outlawed English Ambassador (1793)

• III.  Revolution vs. Constitution (1793)

• IV.  A Garden in the Faubourg St. Denis (1793)

• V.  A conspiracy (1793)

• VI.  A Testimony Under the Guillotine (1793-1794)

• VII.  A Minister and His Prisoner (1794)

• VIII.  Sick and in Prison (1794)

• IX.  A Restoration (1795)

• X.  The Silence of Washington (1795-1796)

• XI.  "The Age of Reason" (1794-1795)

• XII.  Friendships (1795-1796)

• XIII.  Theophilanthropy (1796-1797)

• XIV.  The Republican Abdiel (1797-1800)

• XV.  The Last Year in Europe (1801-1802)

• XVI.  The American Inquisition (1802-1803)

• XVII.  Death and Resurrection (1808-1809)

Chapters Edited Out From This Edition (from The Life of Thomas Paine, With a History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America, France, and England, by Moncure Daniel Conway, © 1892 by Moncure Daniel Conway, Knickerbocker Press, 1893)

• New Rochelle and the Bonnevilles (1803-1805)

• A New York Prometheus (1805-1807)

• Personal Traits (1806-1808)