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English
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"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve the temptation and fall is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty. A staggering and audacious undertaking...
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Publisher
New American Library
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English
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Presents three major works by the seventeenth-century English poet, including his epic poem "Paradise Lost, " which depicts the creation, fall, and redemption of humankind and the moral and spiritual dilemmas of God's judgment.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Stephen Greenblatt explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very 'real' to millions of people even in the present.
"Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt...
18) Quantum shadows
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On a world called Heaven, Conwyn, known as the Shadow of the Raven, contains the collective memory of humanity's Falls from Grace and discovers that another Fall may happen. If he doesn't stop it, mankind will not survive.
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Answers book for kids volume 1
Publisher
Master Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Provides answers to such children's questions as "Did bumblebees have stingers before Adam and Eve sinned?" and "Why do evolutionists trust their beliefs and not Christ?"