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Paradise Lost
- Author
- John Milton
- Narrator
- Adrian Schiller
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 25 June 2020
- Run Time
- 12 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Adrian Schiller.
In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and 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, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.
Introduction © 2003 John Leonard (P) 2019 Penguin Audio
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Details
- Author
- John Milton
- Narrator
- Adrian Schiller
- Duration
- 12 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 June 2020
- ISBN
- 9780241426081
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Poetry / poems by individual poets, Classic poetry / poems, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Christianity
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Adrian Schiller. In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and 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, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.Introduction © 2003 John Leonard (P) 2019 Penguin Audio
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