Areopagitica and Other Writings - format ePub

"Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven." It's the classic temptation - power. And these are the words John Milton puts on the forked tongue of the serpent when it speaks to Adam and Eve. We...

In Het verloren paradijs geeft John Milton een diep menselijke versie van het verhaal van de zondeval in de vorm van een lang episch gedicht. Een charismatische Lucifer verleidt een kwetsbare Adam en...

Beginning with the story of Satan after he was expelled from Heaven along with his followers, Paradise Lost details Satan’s journey to the Garden of Eden and his intent to destroy God’s new creation....

Focusing on the temptation of Christ, John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Regained, suggests that everything lost to man in Paradise Lost is recaptured by Christ’s sacrifices.Published four years after...

The epic poem Paradise Lost tells the story of the fall of man. The poem details Satan’s journey to the Garden of Eden and his intent to destroy God’s new creation, and examines the personalities and...

Best known for his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost, Milton is also a master of subtle lyric harmony. He is one of the greatest writers of the 17th century, and of all time.

Este ebook presenta "El Paraíso Perdido (texto completo, con índice activo)” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El Paraiso Perdido (Paradise Lost) de John Milton es un poema epico, publicado en 1667....

“The Sun to me is darkAnd silent as the Moon,When she deserts the nightHid in her vacant interlunar cave.”Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time,...

"“On Shakespear 1630” typifies much of Milton’s poetry. By some miracle never yet explained, at age 24 he managed to get a 16-line encomium included in the Second Folio of the Bard’s collected works,...

Paradise Lost is an epic poem written by the Puritan English poet John Milton between 1658 and 1663, and published in 1667. This is a period of English history which encompasses the end of Oliver Cromwell's...

The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor of books himself when his opposition to this practice was ignored...

A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter of the Parliament, argued forcefully against the Licensing Order...

Witness the epic struggle between good and evil, heaven and hell, in John Milton's masterpiece, 'Paradise Lost'. This sweeping narrative poem tells the story of the Fall of Man, as the charismatic and...

In "Poemata: Latin, Greek and Italian Poems," John Milton presents a remarkable anthology of his poetic works written in classical languages. This collection showcases Milton's mastery of form, employing...

En 'El Paraíso Recobrado', John Milton ofrece una poderosa reflexión sobre la libertad humana y la redención. Esta obra poética, escrita en un estilo elevado y lírico, se sitúa dentro del contexto del...

Le Paradis perdu John MiltonTraduit par Chateaubriand, illustré par Gustave DoréCet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile...

Plongez dans l'épopée poétique intemporelle de "Le Paradis perdu" de John Milton, un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature anglaise. Ce poème épique vous transporte au cœur d'une lutte cosmique entre le bien...

« La première désobéissance de l’homme et le fruit de cet arbre défendu dont le mortel goût apporta la mort dans ce monde, et tous nos malheurs, avec la perte d’Éden, jusqu’à ce qu’un Homme plus grand...

"Mieux vous régner dans Enfer que servir dans le Ciel". Un texte fascinant, à la fois poétique et épique, sur la chute de Lucifer et la guerre entre Archanges au Paradis. Mais c'est aussi une splendide...

"Tuer un homme, c'est détruire une créature raisonnable ; mais étouffer un bon livre c'est tuer la raison elle-même. On ne peut pas regarder la censure des livres comme une méthode dictée par la sagesse...

"Le Paradis perdu est un poème épique écrit par John Milton et publié pour la première fois en 1667. Ce chef-d'œuvre de la littérature anglaise raconte l'histoire de la chute de l'homme, depuis sa création...

BnF collection ebooks - "Ce premier livre expose d'abord brièvement tout le sujet, la désobéissance de l'homme, et d'après cela la perte du Paradis, où l'homme était placé."BnF collection ebooks a pour...

I, WHO erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By one man's firm obedience fully tried Through all temptation, and the Tempter foiled...

»Das verlorene Paradies« ist John Miltons großes Epos über den Sündenfall und die Vertreibung des Menschen aus dem Paradies. In Blankversen erzählt John Milton vom göttlichen Heilsplan, an dessen Ende...

Milton's great 17th-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by people of the Western world. Its roots lie in the Genesis account...

"Más vale reinar en el Infierno, que servir en el cielo". El Paraiso Perdido es uno de los mejores libros escritos en la historia de la humanidad, y con un tema universal : el bien y el mal. Es también...

"O Paraíso Perdido" é um poema épico sobre a guerra dos anjos e a queda de Lúcifer.

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. It is considered...

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 one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful...

Monumentalny poemat epicki w dwunastu księgach, opisujący upadek pierwszych ludzi, których grzech staje się winą całej ludzkości. Autor bazuje na trzech fragmentach z Pisma Świętego, ale czerpie też z...

The most famous confidence-boosting book ever published; with sales of over 16 million copies worldwide Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie....

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible is God’s providentially appointed Word for the whole world which reveals the name of the Father as “Jehovah”, and the name of His Son, “Jesus”, in whom...

The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds...

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen’s immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured...

A funny, emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes. 'Heartwarming' Good Housekeeping'A gorgeous story, charming and funny and poignant' Nicola Cornick For fans of Ruth Hogan, Veronica...

Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence....

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

The books that inspired the Netflix crime series. Here you will find the following original works: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - The Hollow Needle - 813 -...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

2 March 1810 . . . Today, I fell in love.At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. And even at ten, Miranda learned to accept the expectations society held for her—until the...

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 'biographies,' 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters. Contents: THE NOVELS The Voyage Out Night...

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE... YOU LIEThe bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once explores the dangers of obsession in this #1 bestselling suspense thriller. Six years...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

"The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" will open a world of success, happiness, prosperity, and peace for you. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That...

In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...