Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is 80,097 words — about 5h 20m at 250 words per minute, across 10 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it free, here.
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Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of _Eden_, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav’nly Muse, that on the secret top Of _Oreb_, or of _Sinai_, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth Rose out of _Chaos_: Or if _Si…
Details
- AuthorJohn Milton
- SourceProject Gutenberg #20
- Length80,097 words · 5h 20m of reading
- Chapters10
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-03
Contents
10 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01BOOK I.
- 02BOOK II.
- 03BOOK III.
- 04BOOK IV.
- 05BOOK V.
- 06BOOK VI.
- 07BOOK VII.
- 08BOOK VIII.
- 09BOOK IX.
- 10BOOK X.
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