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1、OXFORDWORLD'SCLASSICSRIGHTSOFMAN,COMMONSENSEANDOTHERPOLITICALWRITINGSTOMPAINEwasborninNorfolkin1737.Afterrudimentaryschool-inghewasapprenticedtohisfather,astaymaker,andlateralsotriedhishandvariouslyasateacher,exciseman,andtobacconist.Attheageof37,in1774,hisvariousenterpriseshavingfailed,heemi-grated
2、toAmerica.HequicklysidedwiththecolonistsintheircontroversywithBritainandin1776wrotetwoofthemostpower-fulpamphletsoftheRevolution,CommonSenseandTheAmericanCrisis.AftertheRevolution,in1787,hereturnedtoEuropeandwascaughtupintheopeningstagesoftheFrenchRevolution.HisRightsofMan(1791-2),writtenasadefenceo
3、fFranceagainstEdmundBurke'sReflectionsontheRevolutioninFrance(1790),wasthemostwidelyreadpamphletofthedecade.Itssuccess,coupledwiththeriseofapopularmovementforpoliticalreforminBritainandPaine'sunrepentantLetterAddressedtotheAddressers(1792)resultedinhisbeingoutlawed.Ayearlater,asadeputytotheNationalC
4、onventioninFrance,hefellfouloftheJacobinsandwasimprisoned.Hewasreleasedattheendof1794andwentontowriteDissertationontheFirstPrinciplesofGovernment(1795)andAgrarianJustice(1796),whichdevelopstillfurtherhisearlierargumentsforanegalitarianyetliberaldemocraticorder.PainereturnedtoAmericain1802,tobevilifi
5、edasanatheistbytheFederationparty(primarilybecauseofhisAgeofReason(1794),anattackonChristianity).Hediedinobscurityin1809.MARKPHILPisaFellowandTutorinPoliticsatOrielCollege,Oxford.HeistheauthorofPaine(1989)intheOxfordPastMastersSeries,andGodwin'sPoliticalJustice(1986).HeisthegeneraleditoroftheCollect
6、edNovelsandMemoirsofWilliamGodwin(1992)andthePoliticalandPhilosophicalWritingsofWilliamGodwin(1993).Hehaswrittenwidelyonlateeighteenth-centurypoliticalideasandmovementsandistheeditorofTheFrenchRevolutionandBritishPopularPolitics(1991).OXFORDWORLD'SCLASSICSForover100yearsOxfordWorld'sClassicshavebrou
7、ghtreadersclosertotheworld'sgreatliterature.Nowwithover700titles—-fromthe4,ooo-year-oldmythsofMesopotamiatothetwentiethcentury'sgreatestnovels—theseriesmakesavailablelesser-knownaswellascelebratedwrit
