The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. in Two Parts. with Original Notes, [and the Life of the Author]

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xv, 360 pp. 12mo bound in sixes. Includes a life of the author, and notes by Thomas Scott. Engravings by Richard Westall. Religious allegory by John Bunyan, at one time second only to the Bible in popularity. It is a symbolic vision of the pilgrimage through life. The first and best-known book, published in 1678, in which the character Christian travels on the road to salvation from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, is presented as a dream. Written in homely yet dignified biblical prose, the work has some of the qualities of a folktale, and in its humor and realistic portrayals of Mr. Worldly Wiseman, Faithful, Hopeful, Pliant, and Obstinate, it anticipates the 18th-century novel. Show more