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Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)

By John Milton , John Leonard

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2013
ISBN
9780141920191
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1076327 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Pages
453\0
Topic
Literature Poetry
Time added
2020-09-30 08:59:26

Description

In his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitter and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men' or exposes the cruelty of authority. Edited with an introduction and notes by John Leonard.

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