Paradise Lost Clothbound Classics

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9780141394633
Published: May 2014

Number of pages: 512
Width: 137 mm
Height: 205 mm
Depth: 31 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd