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Featured Works
18th Century
The Age of Reason
A systematic critique of revealed religion that cost Paine his reputation and nearly his life, written while he awaited execution in a French prison.
18th Century
Common Sense
The pamphlet that argued for American independence with plain reason rather than legal precedent, and sold 500,000 copies in a population of three million.
19th Century
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
The Dresden Edition lectures of 'the Great Agnostic', the most celebrated orator of nineteenth-century America. A sustained, witty, and fearless critique of religious orthodoxy paired with a passionate defence of individual liberty and the scientific method.
Complete Catalogue
| Title | Author | Type | Era |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age of Reason | Thomas Paine | treatise | 18th Century |
| Common Sense | Thomas Paine | pamphlet | 18th Century |
| An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | David Hume | treatise | 18th Century |
| On Liberty | John Stuart Mill | treatise | 19th Century |
| Why I Am Not a Christian | Bertrand Russell | essay | 20th Century |
| The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll | Robert G. Ingersoll | lectures | 19th Century |