Published anonymously in 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence, Paine's Common Sense became an immediate best-seller, with fifty-six editions printed in that year alone. It was this pamphlet, more than any other factor, which helped to spark off the movement that established the independence of the United States. From his experience of revolutionary politics, Paine drew those principles of fundamental human rights which, he felt, must stand no matter what excesses are committed to obtain them, and which he later formulated in his Rights of Man.
- ISBN10 0486296024
- ISBN13 9780486296029
- Publish Date 21 August 1997 (first published 9 January 1776)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 64
- Language English