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我们找来了专门研究西方历史、西方文化的专家学者，请教了专业的翻译人员，精心挑选了这些可以代表西方文学的著作，并听取了一些国外专门研究文学的朋友的建议，不删节、不做任何人为改动，严格按照原著的风格，提供原汁原味的西方名著，让读者能享受纯正的英文名著。

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内容简介

　　《失乐园(英文版)》讲述了撒旦率领众天使反抗上帝失败后，引诱伊甸园中的亚当和夏娃，偷食智慧树上的禁果，利用上帝创造的人类反抗上帝的统治。亚当和夏娃最终丧失了永生的权利，被逐出伊甸园，去耕种上帝给予的土地，去面对充满活力和挑战的现实生活。全诗暗指当时的资产阶级革命由于丧失理性而使得王朝复辟，表达革命失败后的内心痛苦及反省，揭示了人的原罪与堕落。

作者简介

　　约翰·弥尔顿，英国诗人、政论家，民主斗士。弥尔顿是清教徒文学的代表，他的一生都在为资产阶级民主运动而奋斗，代表作《失乐园》是和《荷马史诗》、《神曲》并称为西方三大诗歌。

目录

THE VERSE
BOOK I
B00K II
BOOK III
B00K IV
BOOK V
B00K VI
BOOK VII
B00K VIII
B00K IX
BOOK X
BOOK XI
BOOK XII

精彩书摘

　　BOOK I
　　THE ARGUMENT
　　THIS first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject – Man’s disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise, wherein he was placed: then touches the prime cause of his fall – the Serpent, or rather Satan in the Serpent; who, revolting from God, and drawing to his side many legions of Angels, was, by the command of God, driven out of Heaven, with all his crew, into the great Deep. Which action passed over, the Poem hastens into the midst of things; presenting Satan, with his Angels, now fallen into Hell – described here not in the Centre (for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made, certainly not yet accursed), but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest called Chaos. Here Satan, with his Angels lying on the burning lake, thunderstruck and astonished, after a certain space recovers, as from confusion; calls up him who, next in order and dignity, lay by him: they confer of their miserable fall. Satan awakens all his legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded. They rise: their numbers; array of battle; their chief leaders named, according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and the countries adjoining. To these Satan directs his speech; comforts them with hope yet of regaining Heaven; but tells them, lastly, of a new world and new kind of creature to be created, according to an ancient prophecy, or report, in Heaven – for that Angels were long before this visible creation was the opinion of many ancient Fathers. To find out the truth of this prophecy, and what to determin thereon, he refers to a full council. What his associates thence attempt. Pandemonium, the palace of Satan, rises suddenly built out of the Deep: the infernal Peers there sit in council.
　　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 seat,
　　Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
　　Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
　　That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
　　In the beginning how the heavens and earth
　　Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill
　　Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed
　　Fast by the oracle of God, I thence
　　Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song,
　　That with no middle flight intends to soar
　　Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues
　　Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
　　And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer
　　Before all temples the upright heart and pure,
　　Instruct me, for Thou know’st; Thou from the first
　　Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,
　　Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss,
　　And mad’st it pregnant: what in me is dark
　　Illumine, what is low raise and support;
　　That, to the heighth of this great argument,
　　I may assert Eternal Providence,
　　And justify the ways of God to men.
　　Say first – for Heaven hides nothing from thy view,
　　Nor the deep tract of Hell – say first what cause
　　Moved our grand Parents, in that happy state,
　　Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off
　　From their Creator, and transgress his will
　　For one restraint, lords of the World besides.
　　Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
　　The infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile,
　　Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
　　The mother of mankind, what time his pride
　　Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host
　　Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring
　　To set himself in glory above his peers,
　　He trusted to have equalled the Most High,
　　If he opposed, and with ambitious aim
　　Against the throne and monarchy of God,
　　Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud,
　　With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power
　　Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky,
　　With hideous ruin and combustion, down
　　To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
　　In adamantine chains and penal fire,
　　Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
　　……

前言/序言

凑单买的，看着挺好，封面还是微硬的，不错不错，虽然不知道会不会认真看

买的时候没在意既然是英文的，有点看不懂了。

很不错的一本书，就是看不懂

很乖的一本读物。

挺不错的，活动期间采购，划算

名著有能力有时间就应该读一读，原汁原味，更见内涵。

非常不多的书，非常有价值

这本书很不错，有利于学习英语方面的组织能力

读书不是向外的利器，而是回家的路