Paradise Lost by John Milton

Paradise Lost by John Milton'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties blind, bitter and briefly in danger of execution

Resonating with his singular voice

Clare Sugden

And how can Julia even attempt to live up to an impossible ideal

Why has violence - particularly against women - become exponentially more prominent and visible across the world

Ostracised by the servants and feeling increasingly uneasy

his rambunctious siblings

the Great Famine

funnier and a lot more interesting than life as we generally know it

Following recruitment by the mysterious Atlas Blakely

a violent mobster

From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires

weathered landscape of cliffs