Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained - Softcover

Milton, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099529467 ISBN 13: 9780099529460

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove his power and wound his enemies. He fixes upon God's beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as the vehicles of his vengeance. In this dramatic and influential epic, Milton tells the story of the serpent and the apple, the fall of man and the exile from paradise in stunningly vivid and powerful verse.

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Review:

"Offers an intensely filmic description of the events that countless artists have sought to visualise" (The Times)

"Milton represents the English imagination at its most organised, disciplined and sublime" (Tom Paulin Guardian)

"Never was a work of literature so imbued with the visual. He creates a universe that never existed, and paints it so you see it and are overwhelmed by its immensity, its magnificent splendour at the top end, the great dark plains and huge rocky mountains, the fires and storms at the other - and the horror of the void between" (Julian Rathbone Independent)

"I read Paradise Lost when I was 11, and it made me suddenly realise that the Devil was sexy, which was quite muddling at that age and had disastrous consequences in that I then lusted after unsuitable men for the rest of my life" (Jilly Cooper Daily Mail)

"When the blind John Milton came to retell the story of Genesis in book seven of Paradise Lost he dwelt with understandable poignancy on the sheer visual loveliness of the newly created world. Anyone who thinks Milton is a pedantic old bore should peruse the lines that celebrate the wonder and beauty of birds' flight, migration and song" (Financial Times)

Book Description:

'Paradise Lost was the first literary work in English written on a planetary scale... In sublimity and magnitude, it comes closer than anything in our language to the swollen red sun sinking in a tropical sea...' Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099529467
• ISBN 13: 9780099529460
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368