John Milton

Collection of Milton's most significant prose works features the famous tract "Areopagitica," a defense of freedom of speech, plus "Of Education," "Autobiographical Extracts," "The Doctrine and Disciple of Divorce," other essays.

Ο Ξανακερδισμένος Παράδεισος αναφέρεται στον πειρασμό του Ιησού από τον Σατανά στην Έρημο, και σφύζει από επιβλητικές περιγραφές τοπίων άγριας ερημιάς και διαλόγους μεταξύ τους, με τέτοια ζωντάνια και πειστικά εκατέρωθεν επιχειρήματα έτσι που ο αναγνώστης αποζημιώνεται πολλαπλώς, και η όποια έλλειψη δράσης σε αυτό το ωραίο ποιητικό έργο περνάει απαρατήρητη.

Milton's celebrated epic poem, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. In Paradise Lost Milton produced a 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. John Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit.

In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth, defending the English revolution both in English and Latin - and sacrificing his eyesight in the process. He risked his life by publishing The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth on the eve of the Restoration (1660). His great poems were published after this political defeat.

John Leonard is a Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove his power and wound his enemies. He fixes upon God's beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as the vehicles of his vengeance. In this dramatic and influential epic, Milton tells the story of the serpent and the apple, the fall of man and the exile from paradise in stunningly vivid and powerful verse.

"Από την πρώτη ανυπακοή του Ανθρώπου, και τον καρπό εκείνου του απαγορευμένου δέντρου που η θανάσιμη γεύση του έφερε τον θάνατο στον κόσμο, και όλη τη συμφορά μας, με την απώλεια του Παραδείσου".