Paradise Lost and Regained: A Modern Prose Translation (Hardcover-2024)

Paradise Lost & Regained: A Modern Prose Translation is the first of its kind by an Indian scholar. It offers a combined picture of both parts of the English epic to help students understand Milton’s vision of the Christian myth and doctrine. With this book Indian students, from High School till the post-doctoral level, will be able to read and better understand and enjoy the difficult work in a novel format. It is comparable to similar prose translations of world epics like the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and helps the scholars and researchers undertake a comparative study of this sublime genre.

Dr. Basavaraj Naikar, M.A. (Karnatak), Ph.D. (Gulbarga), D.Litt. (California, USA), Professor Emeritus and former Chairman, Department of English, Karnatak University, Dharwad, is a bilingual scholar, who has published his creative writing like fiction, short fiction, drama, translation, criticism, reviews and has edited critical volumes extensively, enriching the realm of Indian English Literature prominently.