Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
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Rating | : | 4.20 (966 Votes) |
Asin | : | B001IAJKIY |
Format Type | : | |
Number of Pages | : | 477 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-05-29 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Adam, distressed at the event, yet unwilling to be parted from Eve, decides to eat the fruit and share her fate. God sends His Son to earth to render punishment, but only after the Son pleads successfully on their behalf for mercy. In striking contrast to Adam and Eve, Satan is utterly foiled in his attempt to corrupt the Son of God.. And, since he had gone completely blind in 1652, 15 years prior to Paradise Lost, he dictated it and all his other works to his daughter.The main work represented in this recording, Paradise Lost, is divided into roughly three sections. Paradise Lost, along with its companion piece, Paradise Regained, remain the most successful attempts at Greco-Roman style epic poetry in the English language. In the first section, covering books one through four, we are shown how Satan manages to regroup his followers after their defeat in Heaven, how they decide to renew the struggle wit
A fine reading soiled by distracting, cliche background "music" This would be wonderful but for the background "music".