The Pilgrim's Progress
First published 1678
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Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity Fair, Doubting Castle, the Wicket Gate, as well as those who tempt him from his path (e.
g. , Talkative, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, the Giant Despair). But in the end he reaches Beulah Land, where he awaits the crossing of the river of death and his entry into the heavenly city.
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"Pilgrim's Progress" was enormously influential not only as a best-selling inspirational tract in the late 17th century, but as an ancestor of the 18th-century English novel, and many of its themes and ideas have entered permanently into Western culture.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- John Bunyan
- First published
- 1678
- Edition
- A Pilgrim's Progress (Classic Stories)
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN-13
- 9780340844106