What in Me Is Dark

**A FINANCIAL TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR**

''A remarkable feat'' OBSERVER

''Clever, wide-ranging... witty and sardonic'' NEW STATESMAN

A dynamic reappraisal of Milton''s epic poem Paradise Lost, exploring its radical origins in the seventeenth century and its revolutionary impact on our culture ever since.

Drawing on his own experiences of teaching literature in prisons, Orlando Reade focu...