Milton's magnificent poem narrating Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition
In Paradise Lost Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and 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, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.
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John Milton Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 204mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 44mm
Weight: 632g ISBN:9780141394633 ISBN 10: 0141394633 Series:Penguin Clothbound Classics Pages: 512 Publication Date:25 June 2014 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active