Paradise Lost by John Milton
'Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world...Sing heavenly muse' From almost the moment of its first publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficult now to appreciate both how audacious an undertaking it represents, and how astonishing its immediate and continued success was. Over the course of twelve books Milton wrote an epic poem that would 'justify the ways of God to men', a mission that required a complex drama whose source is both historical and deeply personal. The struggle for ascendancy between God and Satan is played out across hell, heaven, and earth but the consequences of the Fall are all too humanly tragic - pride, ambition, and aspiration the motivating forces. In this new edition derived from their acclaimed Oxford Authors text, Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg discuss the complexity of Milton's poem in a new introduction, and on-page notes explain its language and allusions.-
The Monk
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The Castle of Otranto
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Saint Augustine Confessions
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Anna Karenina
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On Liberty and Other Essays
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The Flowers of Evil
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Wuthering Heights
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
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The Nicomachean Ethics
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Evelina
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Germinal
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Candide and Other Stories
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"The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
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Walden
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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
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Republic
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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The Ladies' Paradise
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The Italian
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Persuasion
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Villette
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Adam Bede
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The Odyssey
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Jane Eyre
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Weir of Hermiston
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Theogony and Works and Days
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Pamela
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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On the Genealogy of Morals
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Roman Lives
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Le Le Morte d'Arthur
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Northanger Abbey
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In a Glass Darkly
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"The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
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Ulysses
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Gulliver's Travels
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
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The Poetic Edda
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The Prince
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The Poems of Catullus
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780192833198 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192833197 |
| Title | Paradise Lost |
| Author | John Milton |
| Series | Oxford World's Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2004-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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