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The Conway Edition · Distribution

Output by Year

Every year of Paine's writing life, charted. The bars run from 1775, when the first surviving piece appeared, to 1809, the year of the last published work. Click a year to see the works delivered that year.

55 works All works A-Z index By category

Bird's-eye View

By decade

Output peaks in the 1790s -- Paine's most prolific decade, spanning Rights of Man, the French Convention years, the Luxembourg Prison, the Age of Reason, the Letter to Washington, and Agrarian Justice.

Year by Year

Every year, every work

Each year is a button -- click to expand and read the works delivered that year. The bar shows how that year compares to 1809.

Showing 55 works across 35 years.
  1. 1775 1 work
  2. 1776 2 works
  3. 1777 3 works
  4. 1778 3 works
  5. 1779 no works
  6. 1780 2 works
  7. 1781 no works
  8. 1782 1 work
  9. 1783 1 work
  10. 1784 no works
  11. 1785 no works
  12. 1786 1 work
  13. 1787 no works
  14. 1788 no works
  15. 1789 1 work
  16. 1790 no works
  17. 1791 4 works
  18. 1792 11 works
  19. 1793 5 works
  20. 1794 3 works
  21. 1795 4 works
  22. 1796 3 works
  23. 1797 4 works
  24. 1798 no works
  25. 1799 no works
  26. 1800 1 work
  27. 1801 1 work
  28. 1802 1 work
  29. 1803 no works
  30. 1804 1 work
  31. 1805 no works
  32. 1806 no works
  33. 1807 1 work
  34. 1808 no works
  35. 1809 1 work

Year is the year of composition or first delivery, drawn from each work's front matter. A handful of pieces -- fragments and undated essays -- are excluded from the chart but appear in the complete index and the A-Z list.

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