The 22-page pamphlet-like guide of 84 years ago has developed into a book of almost 400 pages.
But it was with great reluctance that he allowed Faber to publish a trade edition in October 1940, with nine poems added to make it "a little less pamphlet-like".
The slim pamphlet-like book, only 29 pages long when it was published as "Indignez-Vous!" in France, urges people to adopt the principles of the French Resistance in response to issues of immigration, social policy, welfare and Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
Sam Harris, a Stanford graduate with a Ph.D. in neuroscience from U.C.L.A. and author of "The End of Faith," a best-selling, Hitchensesque critique of religion, has now, in book form and fully armored, joined the free-will jousters with a kind of tractatus — a pamphlet-like work, "Free Will".
Referred to as quartos, these slim, pamphlet-like editions of individual Shakespearean plays are also known as player's editions, in which "the emphasis is on the contemporary performance", explained Adam G Hooks, professor of English at the University of Iowa and author of Selling Shakespeare: Biography, Bibliography, and the Book Trade.
Collier emerges as a great trickster and illusionist who tries to evoke the world of print in late 17th-century England, in which (in the words of one pamphleteer) "pamphlets, like wild geese, fly up and down in flocks about the Country".
When asked what part of the pamphlet they liked best and for any other comments about the pamphlet, the vast majority provided positive feedback.
From his post behind a desk in the U.S. Armed Forces recruiting station, Holmes gives out pamphlets like "You and the Army," bumper stickers like "Army.
Pastel-coloured pamphlets, like Innovations catalogues, were crammed with ingeniously ridiculous items such as Sock Ons, baby knee protectors and the shampoo-rinse cup.
Jefferson also saw the usefulness of pamphlets like James Callender's "The Prospect Before Us," which advised readers, "Take your choice, between Adams, war and beggary, and Jefferson, peace, and competency".
Their publicity campaign featured pamphlets like "What Price Prohibition?" (Answer: with the return of legal alcohol, "the necessity of levying income taxes would be eliminated") and "The Cost of Prohibition and Your Income Tax".
