num_pages: 344
description: In John Bunyan's classic allegory, Christian abandons his family and the City of Destruction and sets off to find salvation. His path is straight but not easy, and he is beset by trials, including the terrible violence of the destructive Apollyon and the Giant Despair, as he pursues his pilgrimage through the Slough of Despond, the Delectable Mountains and Vanity Fair towards the Celestial City. In the second part of the narrative his wife, Christiana, is escorted by Great-Heart through the same difficult terrain. Written with the urgency of persecuted faith and a fiery imagination, The Pilgrim's Progress is a spiritual as well as a literary classic.In his introduction, Roger Pooley discusses Bunyan's life and theology, as well as the text's biblical and historical backdrop, its success and critical history. This edition also includes accompanying seventeenth-century illustrations, a chronology, suggested further reading, notes and an index.
language: English
title: The Pilgrim's Progress
titlecomplete: The Pilgrim's Progress
characters: Christian, Faithful, Hopeful
genres: Fiction, Christian Fiction, Religion, Faith, Literature, Classics, Theology, Christian, Christianity, Fantasy
ratings_count: 132988
places: Mount Sinai, Celestial City, Slough of Despond, Valley of the Shadow of Death, Valley of Humiliation, Destruction City
series: The Pilgrim's Progress
publisher: Penguin Classics