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Paradise Lost

Author
John Milton
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
9 hours 27 minutes
ISBN
9781802561388
Published
28 October 2024
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • epic poem
  • Fall of Man
  • Satan
  • temptation
  • redemption
  • free will
  • divine justice
  • good versus evil
  • Adam and Eve
  • biblical story

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Satan?s rebellion ends in exile, then temptation leads Adam and Eve from Eden into the Fall, while questions of free will and divine justice press on every choice. Milton?s epic of sin, pride, and the long road of human loss. Spoken as when heaven?s war and a garden?s quiet failure share one majestic telling of what was lost.

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John Milton (1608–1674) wrote the English epic that still defines the language of heaven and hell. Paradise Lost, composed in blank verse after the Civil War and in the darkness of his blindness, retells the Fall with a grandeur that makes Satan magnetic and Adam and Eve painfully human. Milton was also a polemicist for liberty — of press, of conscience, of the commonwealth — and a civil servant under Cromwell.

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