The Conway Edition
By Category
The canon by form. Paine wrote across half a dozen genres -- the freestanding pamphlet, the Crisis paper, the open letter, the philosophical essay, the speech to a deliberative body, the formal address. Each category lists every work in chronological order.
Pamphlet
7 worksCrisis Paper
8 worksLetter
18 works- 1782 Letter to the Abbe Raynal
- 1789 Private Letters to Jefferson
- 1791 To the Abbe Sieyes
- 1791 To the Authors of "Le Republicain"
- 1792 Letter to the Addressers
- 1792 Letters to Onslow Cranley
- 1792 To Mr. Secretary Dundas
- 1792 To Mr. Secretary Dundas (Second Letter)
- 1792 To the Attorney General
- 1792 To the Attorney General, on the Prosecution of Rights of Man Part Second
- 1792 To the Sheriff of the County of Sussex
- 1793 Letter to Danton
- 1794 Appeal to the Convention
- 1794 The Memorial to Monroe
- 1796 Letter to George Washington
- 1800 Private Letter to President Jefferson
- 1801 Proposal That Louisiana Be Purchased
- 1802 Letters to the Citizens of the United States
Essay
9 works- 1775 African Slavery in America
- 1792 Anti-Monarchal Essay
- 1793 A Citizen of America to the Citizens of Europe
- 1795 Forgetfulness
- 1796 Observations
- 1797 Agrarian Justice
- 1797 The Eighteenth Fructidor
- 1797 The Recall of Monroe
- 1807 An Examination of the Prophecies