Name: Common Sense Addressed to the Inhabitants of America: The Complete Edition With Appendix & Epistle To Quakers (en Inglés)
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Author: Paine, Thomas
ISBN: 9788418938344

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Common Sense Addressed to the Inhabitants of America: The Complete Edition With Appendix & Epistle To Quakers (en Inglés)

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King Solomon

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Paine, Thomas

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22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm

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9788418938344

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It is difficult for us today to grasp just how terrified the American colonies were in the winter of 1776. The war had already begun-blood had been spilled at Lexington and Concord-yet few dared to speak the word "Independence." Most colonists still toasted King George III at dinner, hoping for reconciliation. They saw themselves as wronged British subjects, not as a new nation.Then, in January, a forty-seven-page pamphlet appeared on the streets of Philadelphia.It was anonymous. It was cheap. And it was furious.Common Sense did not argue over tax rates or legal technicalities. Instead, it attacked the very idea of monarchy itself. Thomas Paine, a recent immigrant with little to lose, shattered the psychological bond between the colonies and the Crown. He dared to call the King a "Royal Brute" and argued that it was absurd for an island to govern a continent.What made Paine's work revolutionary was not just his anger, but his language. While his contemporaries wrote in dense, Latin-heavy prose meant for lawyers and aristocrats, Paine wrote for the tavern and the town square. He used biblical metaphors and plain English that farmers, blacksmiths, and soldiers could understand immediately. He took the complex philosophy of the Enlightenment and turned it into a weapon for the common man.Within months, the pamphlet had sold hundreds of thousands of copies. It was read aloud to the Continental Army. It converted the undecided. By July, the Continental Congress had signed the Declaration of Independence, a document that owes its courage, in no small part, to the fire started by these pages.