Pilgrim's Progress - Bunyan, John
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PILGRIM'S PROGRESS is one of the most popular books ever written. Long before George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis wrote their books, John Bunyan crafted the first Christian fantasy in the English language. It has subsequently been translated more often, and run in more editions than any other book, save only the Bible. It is the tale of a man, Christian, and his journey to the Celestial City. Along the way he meets various people, including Worldly Wiseman, Evangelist, Faithful, Hopeful, the Giant Despair, and many others-all allegorical representations of those feelings, states, and people met by…mehr

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PILGRIM'S PROGRESS is one of the most popular books ever written. Long before George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis wrote their books, John Bunyan crafted the first Christian fantasy in the English language. It has subsequently been translated more often, and run in more editions than any other book, save only the Bible. It is the tale of a man, Christian, and his journey to the Celestial City. Along the way he meets various people, including Worldly Wiseman, Evangelist, Faithful, Hopeful, the Giant Despair, and many others-all allegorical representations of those feelings, states, and people met by most people on the spiritual journey. This edition contains both parts of Bunyan's original manuscript, including Christiana's journey. It is beautifully illustrated with 127 woodcuts, now once again available from the Apocryphile Press.
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John Bunyan (baptised 30 November 1628 - 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.Bunyan came from the village of Elstow, near Bedford. He had some schooling and at the age of sixteen joined the Parliamentary Army during the first stage of the English Civil War. After three years in the army he returned to Elstow and took up the trade of tinker, which he had learned from his father. He became interested in religion after his marriage, attending first the parish church and then joining the Bedford Meeting, a nonconformist group in Bedford, and becoming a preacher. After the restoration of the monarch, when the freedom of nonconformists was curtailed, Bunyan was arrested and spent the next twelve years in prison as he refused to give up preaching. During this time he wrote a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and began work on his most famous book, The Pilgrim's Progress, which was not published until some years after his release.