Paradise Lost (illusterated)

Milton's 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.

Includes unique illustrations.