Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine was, literally, a revolutionary book.

Commentary

Christopher Hitchens talks about the significance of Thomas Paine and The Rights of Man.

Interview on Talk of the Nation, 2007

Other books by Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine

Common Sense
by Thomas Paine

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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Middlemarch
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)
The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

Commentary

Other books by Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Our most recommended books

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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The Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine

Common Sense
by Thomas Paine

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson