"The Pilgrim's Progress" has inspired readers for over three centuries and is a classic of the heroic Puritan tradition and a founding text in the development of the English novel. This Oxford World's Classics edition features illustrations that appeared with the book in Bunyan's lifetime.
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John Bunyan
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John Bunyan was an English writer and nonconformist preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
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