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Title:
The Pilgrim's Progress
Author: John Bunyan
First Published in: 1684
The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is
to come, an allegory by Bunyan (Part I 1678 Part II
1684). The allegory takes the form of a dream by the
author In this he sees Christian, with a burden on his
back and reading in a book, from which he learns that the
city in which he and his family dwell will be bumed with
fire. On the advice of Evangelist. Christian flees from
the 'City of Destruction. Pt I describes his pilgrimage
through the 'Slough of Despond, the Interpreter's House.
the House Beautiful, the 'Valley of Humiliation, the
Valley of the Shadow of Death 'Vanity Fair, Doubting
Castle, the Delectable Mountains, the country of 'Beulab,
to the Celestial City. On the way he encounters various
allegorical personages, among them Mr Worldly Wiseman,
'Faithful, Hopeful, Giant Despair, Apollyon, and many
others. Pt II relates how Christian's wife Christiana,
moved by a vision, sets out with her children on the same
pilgrimage, accompanied by her ueighbour Mercy. - The
work is remarkable for the beauty and simplicity of its
language (Bunyan was permeated with the English of the
Bible, though he was also a master of the colloquial
English of his own time), the vividness and reality of
the characterization, and the author's sense of humour
and feeling for the world of nature.
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