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Adam and Eve

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Adam and Eve (From “Paradise Lost,” Fourth Book) by John Milton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 (though written nearly ten years earlier) in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification; most of the poem was written while Milton was blind, and was transcribed for him.

Milton first presents Adam and Eve in Book IV with impartiality. The relationship between Adam and Eve is one of "mutual dependence, not a relation of domination or hierarchy." While the author does place Adam above Eve in regard to his intellectual knowledge, and in turn his relation to God, he also grants Eve the benefit of knowledge through experience. ( Summary from Wikipedia)

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Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by AMY (Amy)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by BWB (B. W. Baugh)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by DL (David Lawrence)
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Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by GC (Snapdragon)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by GHS (Algy Pug)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by JCM (Jason Mills)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by LAH (Lee Ann Howlett)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by LLB (Lewis)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by MG (Martin Geeson)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by PAB (Philip A. Burke)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by REF (Rhonda Federman)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by RN (ravenotation)
Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by TG (TriciaG)
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