Paradise Lost: Illustrated by Gustave Doré

About this book

Satan raises an army in the depths of Hell. Adam and Eve wander through an untouched paradise. Above them, an immense cosmic conflict unfolds with consequences for every human life to follow.

John Milton's epic poem takes the Fall of Man as its subject, giving rebellious angels, divine councils and the first humans their own dramatic voices. Gustave Doré's monumental engravings lend the poem another kind of grandeur: towering architecture, exhausted armies and bodies suspended over terrifying distances. The illustrations are particularly powerful when a single figure confronts an almost immeasurable landscape.