Nonfiction · 1776
The American Crisis
“These are the times that try men’s souls.” Thomas Paine wrote the first Crisis paper in December 1776, with Washington’s army in retreat across New Jersey, and went on writing them as the war itself rose and fell — sixteen papers by the peace of 1783, each signed “Common Sense”: arguments, rebukes, open letters to Lord Howe and to the people of England, accounts of taxation and of nerve.
This Bibliomancer edition presents the complete Crisis papers in the order they appeared, from the text of Moncure Daniel Conway’s edition of Paine’s writings.
Contents
- The Crisis I. (These Are the Times That Try Men’s Souls)
- The Crisis II. To Lord Howe
- The Crisis III. (In the Progress of Politics)
- The Crisis IV. (Those Who Expect to Reap the Blessings of Freedom)
- The Crisis. V. To Gen. Sir William Howe
- To the Inhabitants of America
- The Crisis VI. (To the Earl of Carlisle and General Clinton)
- The Crisis VII. To the People of England
- The Crisis VIII. Address to the People of England
- The Crisis IX. (Had America Pursued Her Advantages)
- The Crisis Extraordinary
- The Crisis X. On the King of England’s Speech
- The Crisis. XI. On the Present State of News
- A Supernumerary Crisis
- The Crisis. XII. To the Earl of Shelburne
- The Crisis. XIII. Thoughts on the Peace, and Probable Advantages Thereof
- A Supernumerary Crisis: To the People of America
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1737–1809 · Enlightenment
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