Paradise Lost
by John Milton, John Leonard (Editor, Introduction by, Notes by)
ISBN-10: 0140424393
ISBN-13: 9780140424393
$12.00
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published on
Apr 29, 2003
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8.66x5.91x0.98 Inches
Weight
0.79 Pounds
About the Book
In Paradise Lost Milton produced 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 intensedebate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.