Common Sense, version 4: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Common Sense, version 4, credited to Thomas Paine, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Common Sense, version 4 by Thomas Paine. Read in English by Mark Leder. In November 1774, Norfolk native Thomas Paine arrived in Philadelphia. He came under the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, and indeed it was Franklin's physician who nursed Paine back to health when he arrived, almost dead from typhoid fever. It was six months before Lexington and Concord. Paine intended for "Common Sense" to be published, as "Plain Truth", in a newspaper, but it instead was published as a pamphlet in January 1776. It soon became the talk of the Thirteen Colonies. - Summary by Mark Leder

Recording facts

• Recording title: Common Sense, version 4
• Author credits: Thomas Paine
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 36:05

Catalogue topics

• political
• revolutionary
• stirring

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 3:49
2. 01 - Chapter I: Of the Origin & Design of Govbernment in general, with concise Remarks on the English Constitution — 15:23
3. 02 - Chapter II: Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession — 23:50
4. 03 - Chapter III: Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs — 41:53
5. 04 - Chapter IV: Of the present Ability of America, with some miscellaneous Reflections — 28:28
6. 05 - Appendix — 36:05

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