Best Selling Books by John Milton

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This 1895 book presents the text of the seventh and eighth books of Milton''s Paradise Lost, which contain an account of the creation of the earth after the fall of Lucifer. The poem is accompanied by a biography of Milton, a history of the poem and a discussion of the cosmology of Paradise Lost.

Full text. Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc''d Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship.Areopagitica is among history''s most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications.

In Paradise, God''s favored new creations--Adam and Eve--live in bliss, untainted by sin. In another realm, Satan and his banished rebel angels collude to destroy God''s tranquil new design. Into this idyll called Earth, and the confidence of Adam and Eve, Satan will instigate the fall of man. At the heart of this complex, audacious epic poem is a drama driven by the most recognizable human flaws. More than a story from Genesis, it is the extraordinary expression of Milton''s search for personal truth and the meaning of existence, written to "justify the ways of God to men."