Paradise Lost

Name: Paradise Lost
Brand: John Milton
SKU: 9780141394633
Price: 15.67 GBP
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by John Milton

Title:

Paradise Lost

Author:

John Milton

Series (if any):

Penguin Clothbound Classics

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

512 pages

Publisher:

TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale

ISBN-13:

9780141394633

EAN:

9780141394633

Classifications:

Poetry

Weight (g):

748

Dimensions (mm):

203 x 140 x 43

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£15.67

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Description

Milton's celebrated epic poem, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.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.John Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit. In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth, defending the English revolution both in English and Latin - and sacrificing his eyesight in the process. He risked his life by publishing The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth on the eve of the Restoration (1660). His great poems were published after this political defeat. John Leonard is a Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.