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In purely poetic value, Paradise Regained is little inferior to its predecessor. There may be nothing in the poem that can quite touch the first two books of Paradise Lost for magnificence; but there are several things that may fairly be set beside almost anything in the last ten. The splendid "stand at bay" of the discovered tempter -- "'Tis true I am that spirit unfortunate" -- in the first book; his rebuke of Belial in the second and the picture of the magic banquet (it must be remembered that, though it is customary to extol Milton's asceticism, the story of his remark to his third wife and the Lawrence and Skinner sonnets, go the other way); above all, the panoramas from the mountaintop in the third and fourth; the terrors of the night of storm; the crisis on the pinnacle of the temple -- are quite of the best Milton, which is equivalent to saying that they are of the best of one kind of poetry. -- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature

THE FLOODS OF FEARSpring is late, and the warm rains of June create a flood that threatens all the small towns and farms in its path. The dikes need to be shored up, and the situation is so desperate that prison inmates are added to the work gangs. Then the dike brakes and everyone is swept in a deluge downstream. One of those men is Donavan, the murderer, and an expert swimmer; another is Peebles, the thief, who probably would have drowned if Donavan hadn't saved him.In their path is Elizabeth, a rich man's daughter stranded by the flood, who is about to learn a lot more about life than she could have ever imagined. In the next 24 hours she will have to fend off the unsavory advances of Peebles while putting faith in a man found guilty of killing another human being. Each of them is caught up in something bigger-and now they are being tested as they have never been before.

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