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Title: John Milton: Paradise Lost ISBN: 9-6263400-2-9 Publisher: Naxos Pub. Date: 21 March, 1995 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $15.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Paradise Lost - Audio CD
Comment: This is an ABRIDGED VERSION.
Amazon.com does not mention that anywhere in the promotion.
What's on the CD is good. But there are whole 'Books' (Chapters) 'paraphrased'.
It's like buying the 13 oz. pound of coffee.
Coffee's great, it's just not what was represented to be.
Worth 13.99, but know it's not the whole thing.
Rating: 5
Summary: So much better than reading it yourself!
Comment: Let's face it. Reading Milton is no cakewalk. Oscar Wilde once said a writer was a "prose Milton" then added, "but so is Milton." That's why Anton Lesser's reading is genius. It's so genius, it demonstrates the genius of Milton. Laura Paton can't quite match Anton in his Shakespearean crispness and demonic force, but she only reads the few speeches of Eve.
Yes, it's an abridged version. But when they say abridged, they barely mean it. Whole books are included on the three (THREE!) CDs and ones that aren't read fully are here in Milton's own summaries. I recommend getting the NORTON CRITICAL EDITION OF PARADISE LOST to read along with this (although everything that's read is included in a booklet that also comes (!) with the CDs. The Norton Crit has the full text (should you want it) along with good footnotes and essays.
This is all so well done and so mindbogglingly cheap for how long it is (four hours!), I'm a little baffled why I hadn't heard of it before. Every English teacher will tell you that Milton should be read aloud. So why not have Anton Lesser do it for you? He does it so dern well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Continually Rewarding
Comment: Naxos audio maintain their high reputation with this excellent production of Milton's classic; wonderfully read by Anton Lesser, with Laura Paton as Eve.
Paradise Lost can be a difficult read. Personally, I could never get round to comitting myself to the book, but this reading really brings it to life, and is well worth spending the time and money. Milton creates many wonderous and fantastical images and characters. Satan is shown as a tragic hero, tormented by the innocence of Adam and Eve, and prompted to revenge. Milton actually uses his characters to play 'devil's advocate' (literally!) by asking many paradoxical questions of the biblical story. Considering this book was first printed at the height of the witchcraft paranoia of the seventeenth century, it's amazing he managed to get away with it.
Full of allegory and layers of meaning, this is a CD set you can enjoy again and again.
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Title: The Divine Comedy Trilogy: The Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise Plus a Life of Dante by Dante Alighieri ISBN: 9626342242 Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $58.98 |
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Title: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney ISBN: 0393320979 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: King Lear by William Shakespeare, Paul Scofield, Alec McCowen, Kenneth Branagh ISBN: 9626342447 Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
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Title: Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism (NORTON CRITICAL EDITIONS) by John Milton, Scott Elledge ISBN: 0393962938 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.20 |
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Title: Canterbury Tales (Classic Literature With Classical Music. Classic Fiction) by Geoffrey Chaucer, Frances Jeater, Charles Simpson, John Rowe ISBN: 9626342560 Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
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