{"product_id":"paradise-lost-by-john-milton-john-milton-9781598181661","title":"Paradise Lost by John Milton, Poetry, Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMilton takes us immediately into the action of the tale, gliding over what we all know from the Bible, developing the story's background as he goes.\u003c\/strong\u003e We learn how Satan came to be in Hell after the war in heaven, see warfare and the ambitions of the angels -- come to know God's wisdom, power, and His wrath. Milton gives us characters who personify Death, Chaos, Mammon, and Sin, and they interact with more traditional figures -- Adam, Eve, Satan, and, yes, God. If you have not read Paradise Lost, it's likely that you're already familiar with a lot of it -- it's a tale that's become a part of our culture. To understand it truly, you need to read this book. The writer and critic Samuel Johnson wrote that Paradise Lost shows off \"[Milton's] peculiar power to astonish\" and that \"[Milton] seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Milton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1598181661\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598181661\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aegypan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"John Milton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43979310596351,"sku":"9781598181661","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ff75601-617c-4ffc-9390-cf351132a633.jpg?v=1683244876","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/paradise-lost-by-john-milton-john-milton-9781598181661","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}