Paradise Lost
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
In the grandest tradition of epic poetry, John Milton's Paradise Lost stands as one of the most monumental achievements in the English language — a shattering retelling of the Fall of Man drawn from the Book of Genesis, in which Satan, cast out of Heaven in magnificent defiance, wages his cosmic war against God by corrupting the innocence of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Written in soaring blank verse across twelve books, this edition is further enriched by the legendary illustrations of Gustave Doré, whose dramatic engravings have become inseparable from the imagination of Milton's world, rendering angels, demons, and celestial vistas with breathtaking intensity. Milton composed Paradise Lost between 1658 and 1664, dictating the work after he had gone completely blind — a fact that lends the poem's meditations on light, darkness, and divine vision an almost unbearable personal poignancy. The poem wrestles with the grandest of theological and philosophical questions: free will, obedience, temptation, and the nature of evil, presenting Satan as one of literature's most complex and paradoxically compelling antagonists. This Franklin Library edition, adorned with Doré's masterful imagery, is a collector's treasure that unites two titans of artistic vision — and invites the reader to confront the question at the heart of human existence: what does it truly mean to lose paradise?
Author: John Milton
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
In the grandest tradition of epic poetry, John Milton's Paradise Lost stands as one of the most monumental achievements in the English language — a shattering retelling of the Fall of Man drawn from the Book of Genesis, in which Satan, cast out of Heaven in magnificent defiance, wages his cosmic war against God by corrupting the innocence of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Written in soaring blank verse across twelve books, this edition is further enriched by the legendary illustrations of Gustave Doré, whose dramatic engravings have become inseparable from the imagination of Milton's world, rendering angels, demons, and celestial vistas with breathtaking intensity. Milton composed Paradise Lost between 1658 and 1664, dictating the work after he had gone completely blind — a fact that lends the poem's meditations on light, darkness, and divine vision an almost unbearable personal poignancy. The poem wrestles with the grandest of theological and philosophical questions: free will, obedience, temptation, and the nature of evil, presenting Satan as one of literature's most complex and paradoxically compelling antagonists. This Franklin Library edition, adorned with Doré's masterful imagery, is a collector's treasure that unites two titans of artistic vision — and invites the reader to confront the question at the heart of human existence: what does it truly mean to lose paradise?