Paradise Lost

✍ Scribed by John Milton, Philip Pullman

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, written by the 17th-century poet John Milton as he became blind at the end of his life, is a retelling of the Biblical story of the Fall of Man. While based on the Christian tale, the poem incorporates many topics, and spends most of its verses detailing the journey of Satan and his war on the angels. The depiction of Adam and Eve draws an elaborate panorama of their trials. This classic of Western literature is wide-reaching and enormously influential, and should not be absent from the modern reader's bookshelf.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Book I......Page 20
Book II......Page 48
Book III......Page 82
Book IV......Page 108
Book V......Page 142
Book VI......Page 172
Book VII......Page 202
Book VIII......Page 226
Book IX......Page 250
Book X......Page 288
Book XI......Page 324
Book XII......Page 354
Afterword......Page 378
A Note on the Illustrations......Page 380