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  • Paradise Lost: By John Milton - Illustrated

    John Milton, Vincent

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 11, 2016)
    Why buy our paperbacks? Standard Font size of 10 for all books High Quality Paper Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About Paradise Lost By John Milton Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification.It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.The poem concerns the Biblical 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".
  • My Mother's Bible Stories: Told in the Language of a Gentle, Loving Mother Conversing With Her Children; Designed for Family Use During "the Children's Hour" Around the Evening Lamp

    John H. Vincent

    Hardcover (Forgotten Books, Nov. 27, 2017)
    Excerpt from My Mother's Bible Stories: Told in the Language of a Gentle, Loving Mother Conversing With Her Children; Designed for Family Use During "the Children's Hour" Around the Evening LampThis then is the mission of the present volume: To turn the attention of parents to the simple and wonderful lessons of' the Holy Bible; to help them in winning the interest of the little folks; and thus to build up memories in which the love and light and joy of home are connected with the law and love and precious promises of the sacred Scriptures.The compiler of this book of Bible stories has availed herself of the helps which other works in the same line have furnished, believing that in this new form they will invite the parents of our times to a renewal of effort in the reading of the Bible and m the repeating of its matchless stories to the children of our land and age.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Johnson Bear

    John Vincent

    Paperback (lulu.com, Nov. 21, 2016)
    Johnson Bear is a country gentleman. He likes to dress in country clothes like tweed plus fours, and green waxed jackets, and Wellington boots, and also wears a bow tie, preferably red. He loves honey, buns, and red wine, and rummaging in bins for useful things to re-cycle. He is a practical, free-thinking bear, and kind. He likes country pursuits and enjoys fishing for red mullet in Big River. His best friends are Monty Mouse and Queen Duck and her ducklings. But Johnson hates the Beastly Buzzit, who is a pest. Buzzit is greedy and mean and his favourite thing is to wreck everybody's peace and happiness. See if Johnson can stop nasty Buzzit pestering the peace-loving creatures of Blue Wood, so they can be happy again.