Pilgrim's Progress E-book
Author: John Bunyan
Genre: Literature, Religion / Mythology / Sacred
Bunyan, John (1628-1688) English allegorical writer and preacher who, as
a youth, traveled gypsy-like about England. He represents himself to have
been sunk in profligacy. Exaggerating the depravity of his unregenerated
condition, he claims that only his marriage at 19 saved him from further
corruption. Upon his conversion, however, he turned to nonconformist
preaching for which he was imprisoned in 1660 for 12 years and again in
1675 for six months during which time he wrote "Pilgrims Progress". He
died following a ride through the rain from Redding to London.
Pilgrim's Progress (1678) "The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That
Which Is To Come" was written in two parts, in 1678 and 1684 respectively.
Along with "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners" (Bunyan's narrative of
his religious conversion), it is his greatest work. The object of the work
is to give an allegorical view of the life of a Christian, his difficulties,
temptations, and ultimate triumph. Among the worldly personages who
obstruct the pilgrim Christian on his way are Sloth, Hypocrisy, Presumption,
the Giant Despair, Mr. Legality, and the Dragons of the Pit.
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