Paradise Lost (Extra Large Print edition) Paperback – Large Print, December 19, 2021

One of the most influential works in the English language, now in easy to read, extra large print 20 point font!John Milton was once essential reading for visionaries and revolutionaries, from William Blake to Ben Franklin. In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the center of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. While the struggle for ascendancy between God and Satan is played out across hell, heaven, and earth in the work, the consequences of the Fall are all too humanly tragic, with pride, ambition, and aspiration being the motivating forces.Written when Milton was in his fifties--blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, and briefly in danger of execution-- Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence toward authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to "justify the ways of God to men," or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.This edition of one of the most influential works in the English language will truly bring to light Milton's genius for today's reader. Read more