Shelfology Book Pairing
The old man and the sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Published 1975
ISBN 9783190001507
Genre American Sea stories
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Paradise Lost
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.
Published 1962
Genre Poetry