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The paradise lost
John Milton · 1851 · Scanned text
197,928 words · about 13 h 52 min to read
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1851, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/35029822); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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About this book
- Author
- John Milton
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1851
- Length
- 197,928 words · about 13 h 52 min
- Sections
- 13 reader sections
- Text
- Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
- Rights
- Public domain
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Contents (13)
- Front matter about 13 min
- Book I. The Argument about 1 h 18 min
- Book II. The Argument about 1 h 20 min
- Book III. The Argument about 1 h 1 min
- Book IV. The Argument about 1 h 22 min
- Book V. The Argument about 1 h 5 min
- Book VI. The Argument about 1 h 1 min
- Book VII. The Argument about 1 h 1 min
- Book VIII. The Argument about 56 min
- Book IX. The Argument about 1 h 23 min
- Book X. The Argument about 1 h 24 min
- Book XI. The Argument about 56 min
- Book XII. 507 about 52 min
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