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Paradise Lost - Penguin Classics
John Milton, John Leonard

Updated Edition

Paperback (27 Feb 2003)


An endless moral maze, introducing literatures first Romantic, Satan John Carey

In his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos 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, bitter and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Losts apparent ambivalence has led to intense debate about whether it manages to justify the ways of God to men or exposes the cruelty of authority.


Edited with an introduction and notes by JOHN LEONARD


Product details

Format Paperback | 512 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 22mm | 351g
Publication date 01 May 2003
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Revised ed.
ISBN10 0140424393
ISBN13 9780140424393
Bestsellers rank 10,426