These ten essays by the distinguished Milton scholar Edward Le Comte examines the various themes, context and structure of Milton’s poetry and prose, including particular focus on both Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.

This is the first biography of a defiant teen-ager of 350 years ago who has to be called remarkable (whatever else she is called!), and to whose story Professor Le Comte brings both wit and sympathy, a novelist's interest in psychology, a ...

Presents three major works by the seventeenth-century English poet, including his epic poem "Paradise Lost," which depicts the creation, fall, and redemption of humankind and the moral and spiritual dilemmas of God's judgment.

A shoemaker and his wife being photographed for their wedding anniversary keep adding items to the picture despite the photographer's admonition that "Simple pictures are best."

Tells the story of a poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London. Introduction by Michael Slater "From the Hardcover edition.