What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost Classics_Gift_Guide evocative epic of two women’s

evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity--from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village

proclaiming her

a lifelong knitter

When her best friend

one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomachache

What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost Classics_Gift_Guide evocative epic of two women’sA highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever evolving relevance of Miltons epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator and the revolutionary lives that were influenced by it. What in Me Is Dark tells the unlikely story of how Miltons epic poem came to haunt political struggles over the past four centuries, including the many different, unexpected, often contradictory ways