Paradise Lost

Author
John Milton
6h 29m First published 1667 (359 years ago) Epic PoetryDrama
Short Description
Rebel angels, a fallen Satan, and the first two humans in Eden, Milton’s original epic in clear modern language.
Full Description

Paradise Lost tells the epic story of the first rebellion and the first fall. Cast out of Heaven after a failed war against God, Satan wakes in Hell beside his fallen angels and vows revenge. He journeys through Chaos to the newly created world, slips into the Garden of Eden, and sets his sights on Adam and Eve, the first humans, living in perfect innocence. Despite warnings from the angel Raphael, temptation wins, the forbidden fruit is eaten, and paradise is lost. The original story in clear, modern language, with all the drama, grandeur, and big questions of John Milton’s twelve-book epic. It’s a powerful, easy listen about pride, freedom, and hope.

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Goodreads 3.86 from 189K ratings

  • “…a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.”

    Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets, 1779

  • “Once in the rhythm of reading I tasted heaven itself.”

    Patrick Oden Goodreads

  • “…brilliant and a foundation of modern literature”

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