书名：Common Sense  常识
作者：Thomas Paine
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：2004
语种：英文
ISBN：9780553214659
商品尺寸：10.7 x 0.8 x 17.5 cm
包装：平装
页数：80 （以实物为准）

Common Sense《常识》深刻揭露了英国的黑暗与压迫本质，使得很多北美人下定决心与英国决裂，极大地鼓舞了美国独立士气，成为北美人民明确的战斗纲领和建立独立的美利坚合众国的指路灯。《常识》的思想随后被吸收为《独立宣言》的精华，成为现代美国政治制度的灵魂。本书适合英语专业学生及对英语文学作品、美国政治、历史感兴趣的读者。
推荐理由：
1.“美国体制之父”潘恩代表作，促使美国从不列颠帝国中独立出来的出版物，《独立宣言》思想雏形；
2.书中公开提出美国独立问题，三个月内售出十多万册，引起巨大轰动；

3.入选“改变美国的20本书”，同时也是一本当代青年不可不读的经典名著；
4.英文原版无删减，小巧轻便，阅读方便。
A leading voice in the struggle for America’s independence, political pamphleteer Thomas Paine articulated the spirit of 1776 as no other individual of his day. His gift for putting into words the progressive thinking of the time drew more attention to the cause of freedom than many of his more illustrious contemporaries. Published in January 1776,Common Sensequickly established Paine’s reputation and became the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution. Considered his most important work,Common Senseis thought to have most powerfully and passionately expressed the views many ordinary Americans held about their relation to Britain. Radical, practical, and relevant, Paine’s writings hold a momentous place in the literature of politics and are an enduring testament to the pursuit of liberty. 

Common Senseis a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation.

Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called “a corset maker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination”.
托马斯·潘恩（Thomas Paine）：英裔美国思想家、作家、政治活动家、理论家、革命家、激进民主主义者。美国独立战争期间，他撰写了铿锵有力并广为流传的小册子《常识》极大地鼓舞了北美民众的独立情绪，也被广泛视为美国开国元勋之一。后来受到法国大革命影响，潘恩撰写了《人的权利》，成为启蒙运动的指导作品之一。英国囚犯、美国精神领袖、法国革命者，这三个词，足以概括潘恩的一生。

PERHAPS THE sentiments contained in the following pages, are notyetsufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in hisownRight, to support the parliament in what he callsTheirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpations of either.
In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided everything which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise and the worthy need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains is bestowed upon their conversion.
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of party censure, is…