Start reading Paradise Lost on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here.

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

 
 
 
Read books on your computer or other mobile devices with our FREE Kindle Reading Apps.
Paradise Lost
 
 
Share your own customer images

Paradise Lost [Kindle Edition]

John Milton (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews) |
Digital List Price: £0.00 What's this?
Print List Price: £4.98
Kindle Price: £0.00 includes free wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
You Save: £4.98 (100%)

Formats

 Amazon Price New from Used from
Kindle Edition £0.00   -- --
Paperback £4.98   -- --
Audio Download, Unabridged £12.97 or Free with Audible.co.uk 30-day free trial

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Product Description

Review

Meticulously edited, full of tactful annotations that set the stage for his work and his times, this edition brings Milton, as a poet and a thinker, vividly alive before us. --Robert Hass, winner of the National Book Award

In this landmark edition, teachers will discover a powerful ally in bringing the excitement of Milton s poetry and prose to new generations of students. --William C. Dowling, Rutgers University

This magnificent edition gives us everything we need to read Milton intelligently and with fresh perception. --William H. Pritchard, Amherst College

Product Description

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
See all Product Description

Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 411 KB
  • Print Length: 148 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1453857656
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.ą r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004UJSYO6
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #300 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)

    •  Would you like to give feedback on images?

More About the Authors

Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
John Milton
John Milton
John Leonard
John Leonard

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

› Explore similar items

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
Agree with these tags?

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Roman Clodia TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
As Blake so rightly says, Milton's Satan is the true hero of PL - however unwittingly and however horrified Milton might have been to think it. Rebellious, over-reaching, full of pride and arrogance, he yet leaps off the page at us with his intelligence and his rhetoric and his plots.

In a way it's not that surprising: taking classical epic as his model, Milton creates an anti-hero in the mould of Achilles, also driven by pride and the urge to impose himself on his world. One of the many pleasures of Milton's great narrative poem is precisely the identifications of classical epic conventions and the innovative uses to which he puts them.

It seems it's not fashionable to read poetry these days, especially not narrative poetry (as opposed to `personal' lyric) but it's a huge shame to miss out on writing as thrilling as Milton's. With his great rolling sentences and complex diction it might take a little while to get into his rhythm but the effort is well worth it. From the opening scene where Satan and his minions are thrown out of heaven, to the quiet ending as Adam and Eve walk hand in hand away from Eden, Paradise Lost truly is a reading experience to savour.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful
An Excellent Edition 19 Jan 2006
Format:Paperback
A work almost without parallel in terms of length and epic nature, the blind Milton beautifully captures what he believes in relation to the creation story. Using a blend of Greek myth from his extensive knowledge of classical literature, polemic verse which is at times intoxicating (particularly in the presentation of the quasi-hero Satan), and his own religious convictions, Milton presents at once a complex and enthralling tale. It also seems to reveal his inner difficulties with the subject matter, as the many fascinating contradictions regarding pre destination and Adam and Eve¡¦s position as free beings suggest. William Blake pointed out that the ease which Milton found talking about Satan instead of God suggested that he was like many other poets, ¡¥of the devils party without knowing it.¡¦ To read it is a pleasure devotedly to be wished (the best version is probably the Penguin Classics), but expect to be challenged and provoked in equal measure. This edition is without a doubt the best you can buy, with an outstanding introduction, ¡¥Table of Dates,¡¦ ¡¥Further Reading¡¦ section, and a ¡¥Note on the text.¡¦ The Notes at the back of the book are nearly always insightful and useful, and try as much as possible to be accurate about the possibly source for each of Milton¡¦s numerous literary references, most of them to the Classical authors and to Greek mythology. Highly Recommended.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This is not an exact or complete replica of the current Penguin Classics edition [ISBN 0-140-42439-3] Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics). Apart from the different cover and absent back cover, this Kindle mobi edition leaves out the following sections from the Penguin Classics edition: Introduction; Table of Dates; Further Reading; Note on the Text; Marvell 'On Paradise Lost'; and the detailed Notes section provided at the end of the Penguin Classics edition. The text of this edition also leaves out Milton's 'Argument's which precede each Book of Paradise Lost. Line numbers are omitted in the presentation of the text (compared with Penguin's which provides line numbers at intervals of 5 lines) - though one common fault of Kindle editions is that line numbers are usually jammed into the body of the text disruptively instead of being placed on hanging indents to the left of the column of verse. In the Penguin Classics printed edition the text has been partially modernized - spelling has been modernized, most capitals reduced [a word in all capitals is reduced to a capital for the first letter only, words whose first letters are capitalized are all in lower case], and most italics removed. This Kindle edition appears to retain the spelling and typographical stylistics of 17th century printed editions, though without any italicisation. My review evaluation of three stars represents the loss of the additional material present in the printed Penguin Classics edition, rather than value for money, which at 49p seems reasonable enough.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Effort Required, But Worth It
I really enjoyed this excellent poem. It was a lot of effort owing to a few factors some of which are due to Milton himself and others due to the edition. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Harry the book monkey
OK, I'm converted ...
I read this work as I followed Prof John Roger's excellent (and rather charming) online lectures from YaleOnline. I was doing this as a sort of self-educational duty. Read more
Published 18 months ago by E. Clarke
An Extraordinary Mind
An entire lifetime of scholarship on display in one epic poem describing man's fall from God's grace. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Brownbear101
The greatest
Forget Shakespeare - this is almost certainly the greatest work of literature in the English language. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2010 by Oracle
Excellent work, average edition
Although "Paradise Lost" is one of the great works of the English language and should be read by every serious literary mind, I found the Penguin edition somewhat lacking. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2008 by Helen Walter
Classic work
Of Man's first disobedience and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till on... Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2005 by Kurt Messick
just incredible
I rank Milton's talents which are at their very best in Paradise Lost with the all time greats of English and world literature. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2005
A book that is seriously misjudjed
When I first heard of Paradise Lost Ithought it would be boring and extremely hard to read. But you can imagine my shock when I started to read the first few lines and found that... Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2005 by "bettyboopchocolate"
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Popular Highlights

 (What's this?)
&quote;
  The mind is its own place, and in it self   Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. &quote;
Highlighted by 338 Kindle users
&quote;
  To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:   Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n. &quote;
Highlighted by 226 Kindle users
&quote;
What in me is dark   Illumine, what is low raise and support;   That to the highth of this great Argument   I may assert th' Eternal Providence,   And justifie the wayes of God to men. &quote;
Highlighted by 129 Kindle users

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums

Customers Who Highlighted This Item Also Highlighted

Back
Next

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject




i.e., each title must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Amazon Media EU S.ą r.l. GB Privacy Statement Amazon Media EU S.ą r.l. GB Delivery Information Amazon Media EU S.ą r.l. GB Returns & Exchanges