The Revelation of John - Peter Levi

On the Greek island of Patmos, in the 1st century AD, a man known only as John set down a book of awesome omens and enigmas and conversations with God. This fresh translation of John's vision of the tortured advent of the new heaven and new earth is prefaced by an exploration of its origins and authorship, its extraordinary spectrum of symbolism and its echoes in Blake and Milton. Peter Levi concludes that "the best one can do is to read it all again and let it sink in, as the light of the amazing city mysteriously illuminates distant and unnamed nations".