The Pilgrims Progress (Collins Classics)

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John Bunyans much-loved allegory, telling the story of Christian and his journey to the Celestial City.

THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS, John Bunyans masterful religious allegory, narrates the journey of an everyman hero, Christian, as he attempts to navigate the trials and tribulations of this world, the City of Destruction, on the path towards paradise, the Celestial City. Though weighed down by the burden of original sin, Christian overcomes the distractions of the world, moving past the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty and the Valley of the Shadow of Death, while simultaneously resisting the temptations of the Worldy Wise, the Vain and the Ignorant. The product of a lifetime of religious work and thought, Bunyans virtuosic narrative fundamentally altered Protestant belief, and remains one of the most important and influential works in the English language.

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[The] great merit of the [The Pilgrims Progress is] that the most cultivated man cannot find anything to praise more highly, and the child knows nothing more amusing. Samuel Johnson

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John Bunyan (162888) was an English preacher and writer who wrote over sixty books and tracts. Bunyan was a Reformed Baptist, and his religious beliefs led to his persecution during the Restoration. While imprisoned Bunyan wrote the spiritual allegory, The Pilgrims Progress, which quickly became one of the foundational texts of Protestant thought.