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Also by John Milton:

The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, November 2007
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Paradise Lost: Complete & Unabridged, July 2005
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Paradise Lost, May 2003
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Paradise Lost
John Milton

Epic poem of religion and man

Penguin
May 2003
512 pages
ISBN: 0140424393
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Historical | Fiction | Fantasy

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 has an apparent ambivalence towards authority which 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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