Milton in America
By: Peter Ackroyd.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Fiction; British -- America -- Fiction; Poets -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
Description: Milton in America poses a tantalizing question: What if the poet John Milton had come to Puritan America in 1660? The answer Ackroyd gives is both delightfully unexpected and chillingly apt, and makes for a thoroughly compelling novel.