But whether the forbidden fruit was an apple, fig, peach, pomegranate or something completely different, it is worth revisiting the temptation scene in Book 9 of Paradise Lost, both as an homage ...

About 95 percent of Paradise was lost; its smaller neighbors, Concow and Magalia, were all but destroyed. Until now, last year's wildfire in California's wine country was the worst on record in ...

Up Close The Only Surviving Manuscript of ‘Paradise Lost’ John Milton, by then completely blind, composed his epic poem by dictation.