A Preface to Paradise Lost
by C. S. Lewis
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- Oxford University Press, 1942
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- The Abolition of Man
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- 24 on Open Library, 21 in English
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The first edition of A Preface to Paradise Lost by C. S. Lewis was published in London by Oxford University Press in 1942.
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