With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim John Bunyan was variously a tinker soldier Baptist minister prisoner & writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this his greatest work It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance & is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero
- Christian
- from the City of Destruction via the Slough of Despond the Hill of Difficulty the Valley of the Shadow of Death & Vanity Fair over the River of the Water of Life & into the Celestial City The Pilgrim's Progress has been translated into 108 languages was a favourite of Dr Johnson & was praised by Coleridge as one of the few books which might be read repeatedly & each time with a new & different pleasure