Shelfology Book Pairing

by Mark Twain

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

A Poem in Twelve Books

by John Milton

Concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men" and elucidate the conflict between God's eternal foresight and fre e will.