Paradise Lost: SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic Paperback – March 12, 2026

A unique illustrated edition of this 1667 classic by John Milton. Includes 50 illustrations and line numbers next to all lines to facilitate discussion, great for classes.Original, unabridged text formatted with a larger size font.A cover from the 1882 Altemus edition. SeaWolf Press does not use AI-generated images for their covers or illustrations.All 50 of the original illustrations by Gustave Doré.Line numbers included for the entire book. This seldom-seen feature makes discussion and learning much easier.Printed locally, not overseas.Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) is an epic poem in twelve books that retells the biblical story of the Fall of Man. It opens with Satan and his rebel angels cast into Hell after their failed uprising against God. Driven by pride and defiance, Satan resolves to corrupt God's newest creation — humanity.The poem follows Satan's journey to the newly created Earth, where he tempts Eve in the Garden of Eden. Despite the warnings of the archangel Raphael, Eve eats the forbidden fruit, and Adam, unwilling to be separated from her, follows. Their disobedience brings sin and death into the world, and they are expelled from Paradise by the archangel Michael — though not without a vision of hope in the form of a promised redemption.Milton's stated aim was to "justify the ways of God to men," and the poem grapples with profound themes: free will, obedience, temptation, pride, and the nature of good and evil. Satan is one of literature's most complex villains — charismatic, eloquent, and self-deceiving — while Adam and Eve are rendered with surprising psychological depth. Written in grand blank verse. Paradise Lost is widely considered the greatest epic poem in the English language. Read more