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John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny.
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- Author
- John Milton
- First published
- 1667
- Pages
- 333
- Publisher
- printed by J. Hughs, W.W. Norton, Borders Classics
- Editions
- 396
- Language
- Spanish, arm, hun, cze
- ISBN
- 9780451524744
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“This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was placed; then touches the prime cause of his fall, the serpent, or rather Satan in the serpent, who, revolting from God and drawing to his side many legions of angels, was by the command of God driven out of Heaven with all his crew into the great deep.”
John Milton was an English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton
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