The pilgrim's progress.
By: Edited with an introd. by Roger Sharrock.
Contributors: Sharrock, Roger, ed.
Series: Penguin English library,; EL4
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Bunyan wrote the first part of "The pilgrim's progress" when he was in prison as a Baptist preacher. In his hands a pious tract is transformed into a work of imaginative literature which has been more widely read than any book in English except the Bible. Its influence, both indirectly on the English consciousness and directly on the literature that followed, has been immeasurable. The rich countryman's phrases that Bunyan borrowed or invented have become enshrined in the language, and many of the characters he created to people his imaginary world have won for themselves an independent and unforgettable existence.