Paradise Lost and Other Poems (Signet Classics)

This is a "Reading Copy" That I can underline and make notes in without worrying about damaging a more expensive book. Like my set of Great Books. I can also use it for reference if I watch a YouTube lecture on the book and make notes referencing the lectures I have watched.

A rarest of rare books where the story and language are as earth-shattering as the characters...et carter

The front cover is great but it's ruined by the scratch marks and damage on the front cover. There were scratches on the first book and the replacement.

The book arrived in good condition

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I had to buy it for a literature class. The shipping was fast and the book was in good condition.

It's an OK translation

I bought this edition many years ago when I was on a bit of a classic literature kick. Unfortunately it proved to be a little too dense for me the first time around. Perhaps I just wasn't prepared to undertake an epic poem the likes of Paradise Lost, and the book sat in my "to-read" pile for years. Thank goodness I eventually picked it back up and read through it! I would easily rank Paradise Lost among the highest works of literature ever produced, even greater than Dante 's Inferno; and it's certainly in the top 5 books I have ever read.I'll admit that the book can be challenging to get through at times, but the payoff is amazing if you can persevere. The characterization of Satan, Milton's imagining of Hell, and the battle between the angels and demons will blow you away!As to this edition, I can't say that I have any other editions to which I can compare it, but I found the footnotes to be quite helpful, the main text to be readable while still maintaining a majestic and poetic tone, and I appreciated that the annotations were in the form of footnotes rather than endnotes as I have seen in other classic works such as the Inferno.Honestly, I think that every lover of literature owes it to themselves to read this work at least once in their lives.