The Pilgrim's Progress - Softcover

Bunyan, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0883680963 ISBN 13: 9780883680964

Publisher: Whitaker House,U.S., 1981

Synopsis

The Pilgrim's Progress (Part I 1678/Part II 1684) holds a unique place in the history of English literature. No other seventeenth-century work except the King James Bible, nothing from the pen of a writer of Bunyan's social class in any period, and no other Christian work, has enjoyed such an extensive readership. The pilgrim Christian, Mr Worldly Wiseman, Giant Despair, Hopeful, and Ignorance are engaged in a powerful drama set against a solidly realistic background of town and country. Bunyan captures the speech of ordinary people as accurately as he depicts their behaviour and appearance and as firmly as he realizes their inner emotional and spiritual life. The tale is related in language remarkable for its beauty and simplicity, and is spiced with Bunyan's acute and satirical perceptions of the vanity and hypocrisy of his own society.

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The Pilgrim's Progress

Review:

This stunningly executed allegory has furnished the Christian imagination with names and situations that have now infiltrated most of our literature. Not often does something so popular manage also to be accurate.
Eugene Peterson, Take and Read"

"This stunningly executed allegory has furnished the Christian imagination with names and situations that have now infiltrated most of our literature. Not often does something so popular manage also to be accurate."
--Eugene Peterson, Take and Read

About this edition

• Publisher: Whitaker House,U.S.
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0883680963
• ISBN 13: 9780883680964
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400