THE ATHENAEUMRights of ManThomas Paine
Contested
Rights of Man
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textPaine’s answer to Edmund Burke’s attack on the French Revolution, published in two parts in 1791 and 1792: governments exist for the people, and the people may change them. It sold in enormous numbers. Paine was tried for seditious libel and convicted in his absence, having already left for France.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 6 hr 15 min
- Where to find it
- The Unwelcome Spines, beyond the Restricted Catalogue
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #3742. In the public domain in the United States.