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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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"Paradise Lost" by John Milton is an epic poem that delves into the biblical story of the Fall of Man, deftly exploring themes of temptation, sin, and redemption. With majestic language and sweeping imagery, Milton recounts the rebellious uprising of Satan and his angels against God, their subsequent exile to Hell, and Satan's sinister plot leading to the downfall of Adam and Eve in Eden. This monumental work not only illuminates the human condition but also wrestles with questions of free will, divine justice, and the struggle between good and evil.

Author

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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