Orlando Reade

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘Lively and humane… Reade’s enthusiasm and curiosity are winning’GUARDIAN Summoned in Haiti’s struggle against colonial rule, read in prison by the young Malcolm X, and reimagined by Virginia Woolf Orlando Reade shows the many different, surprising, and often contradictory ways in which Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost has been read across centuries and...

A dynamic reappraisal of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, exploring its radical origins in the seventeenth century and its revolutionary impact on our culture ever since. A FINANCIAL TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A remarkable feat' OBSERVER 'Clever, wide-ranging... witty and sardonic' NEW STATESMAN Drawing on his own experiences of teaching literature in prisons, Orlando Reade focuses on...