The Pilgrims Progress

Christian's journey toward the Celestial City has been read as adventure, sermon and allegory for more than three centuries. John Bunyan cast the Christian life as a road with named hazards and companions, and several of the figures he invented have passed into ordinary English usage. Written in direct prose during the seventeenth century, the narrative moves through a sequence of trials that readers have interpreted in religious, literary and moral terms. For the shelf: • One of the most widely translated works of English allegory • Personified characters and landmarks that shaped later literature • Direct seventeenth-century prose that remains readable today • A text studied in literature courses as well as read devotionally Suited to literature students, readers of classic English writing and those interested in Christian devotional history, this edition is available at Boipoka.