Also published as: Pilgrim's Progress

Author: John Bunyan Year: 1678 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Christianity, Free books, Religion, Fantasy, Christian fiction Purchase/reserch links: Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com ManyBooks Project Gutenberg LibraryThing Standard eBooks Goodreads ISBNs: 9781581734812 1581734816

Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity Fair, Doubting Castle, the Wicket Gate, as well as those who tempt him from his path (e.g., Talkative, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, the Giant Despair). But in the end he reaches Beulah Land, where he awaits the crossing of the river of death and his entry into the heavenly city. "Pilgrim's Progress" was enormously influential not only as a best-selling inspirational tract in the late 17th century, but as an ancestor of the 18th-century English novel, and many of its themes and ideas have entered permanently into Western culture. Similar books: Good-bye, Mr. Chips and Other Stories by James Hilton The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott The Little Minister by J. M. Barrie Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter Seventeen by Booth Tarkington End of the Chapter by John Galsworthy Work by Louisa May Alcott The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter The Prodigal Parents by Sinclair Lewis The DMZ by Jeanette Windle Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling A Modern Cinderella by Louisa May Alcott Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather The Lifted Veil by George Eliot