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The Pilgrim's Progress
In John Bunyan's hands a pious tract is transformed into a work of imaginative literature The Pilgrim's Progress whose influence - both on work that followed and on the English consciousness as a whole - has been immeasurable This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Roger PooleyJohn Bunyan began The Pilgrim's Progress while he was in prison for conducting unauthorised Baptist religious services outside of the Church of England In this classic allegory devout everyman Christian abandons his family and the City of Destruction and sets off to find salvation His path is straight but not easy and he is beset by trials including the terrible violence of the destructive Apollyon and the Giant Despair as he pursues his pilgrimage through the Slough of Despond the
Delectable Mountains and Vanity Fair towards the Celestial City In the second part of the narrative his wife Christiana is escorted by Great-Heart through the same difficult terrain Written with the urgency of a persecuted faith and a fiery imagination The Pilgrim's Progress is a spiritual as well as a literary classicIn his introduction Roger Pooley discusses Bunyan's life and theology as well as the text's biblical and historical backdrop its success and critical history This edition also includes further reading notes and accompanying seventeenth-century illustrations a chronology suggested further reading notes and an indexJohn Bunyan (1628-88) was born in Elstow a village near Bedford Soon after the Restoration he was arrested for unlicensed preaching and because he refused to stop
remained in prison in Bedford for twelve years In 1678 he published the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress It became an immediate bestseller running through twelve editions and being translated into Dutch French and Welsh during Bunyan's lifetime; since then it has been translated into more than two hundred languages If you enjoyed The Pilgrim's Progress you might like Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love also available in Penguin Classics
Delectable Mountains and Vanity Fair towards the Celestial City In the second part of the narrative his wife Christiana is escorted by Great-Heart through the same difficult terrain Written with the urgency of a persecuted faith and a fiery imagination The Pilgrim's Progress is a spiritual as well as a literary classicIn his introduction Roger Pooley discusses Bunyan's life and theology as well as the text's biblical and historical backdrop its success and critical history This edition also includes further reading notes and accompanying seventeenth-century illustrations a chronology suggested further reading notes and an indexJohn Bunyan (1628-88) was born in Elstow a village near Bedford Soon after the Restoration he was arrested for unlicensed preaching and because he refused to stop
remained in prison in Bedford for twelve years In 1678 he published the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress It became an immediate bestseller running through twelve editions and being translated into Dutch French and Welsh during Bunyan's lifetime; since then it has been translated into more than two hundred languages If you enjoyed The Pilgrim's Progress you might like Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love also available in Penguin Classics
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