Books : Paradise Lost (Great Epics)
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by: John Milton
Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9789626345023
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 9626345020
Label: Naxos Audiobooks
Manufacturer: Naxos Audiobooks
Number Of Items: 3
Publication Date: 1994-09
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
Sales Rank: 1140019
Studio: Naxos Audiobooks
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Product Description:
Milton tells the story of Man's creation, fall and redemption--to 'justify the ways of God to men.' 3 cassettes.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Enthralling
Unbelievably inspiring. I challenge you to compare his reading with any one else's or your own in your head. He makes it alive. Not perfect, mind you. You'll find yourself suggesting to him in certain spots that he missed the meaning by putting some emphasis or other on the wrong words. Nevertheless, you know you couldn't do better overall. A real treasure.
Rating: - Review of the Buccaneer Books Library Binding edition
My review is of the library binding edition released by Buccaneer Books. It is a very plain and small volume which is wonderfully bound. It contains nothing but the poem itself (including the prose arguments) with the original spelling and punctuation. That means no notes, commentary, or introduction, so if you're looking for lots of in-text help, this isn't what you want. The Fowler, Hughes, or Norton editions are all laden with helpful material like that. But if you just want to experience Milton's ... Read More
Rating:  - Perfectly good recording, incomplete text
Great for a long drive or while driving cross town in Manhattan. You can debate the issues of suffering with Milton in your head.
Sure do wish it were the whole work.
Rating: - Zenith
Milton in Paradise Lost unfurls a morning star banner heralding the cosmic story of the fall of angels and men in language eminently civil. I am sure that Homer and Dante were Milton's schoolmasters yet Milton almost exceeds them in the slendid language and poetry of this epic creation. Philip Pullman said "No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words". This is a poem of majesty and sublime lyricism as in Milton's ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent resource
Contains extensive information in the introduction that is lends an understanding to anyone reading any of Milton's work. This particular version is very inexpensive, and contains everything one would need to understand PL. Excellent!
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