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THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, John Bunyan's masterful religious allegory,
narrates the journey of an everyman hero, Christian, as he attempts to
navigate the trials and tribulations of this world, the City of
Destruction, on the path towards paradise, the Celestial City. Though
weighed down by the burden of original sin, Christian overcomes the
distractions of the world, moving past the Slough of Despond, the Hill
of Difficulty and the Valley of the Shadow of Death, while
simultaneously resisting the temptations of the Worldy Wise, the Vain
and the Ignorant. The product of a lifetime of religious work and
thought, Bunyan's virtuosic narrative fundamentally altered Protestant
belief, and remains one of the most important and influential works in
the English language. '[The] great merit of the [The Pilgrim's
Progress is] that the most cultivated man cannot find anything to praise
more highly, and the child knows nothing more amusing.' Samuel Johnson
John Bunyan (1628-88) was an English preacher and writer who wrote over
sixty books and tracts. Bunyan was a Reformed Baptist, and his religious
beliefs led to his persecution during the Restoration. While imprisoned
Bunyan wrote the spiritual allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which
quickly became one of the foundational texts of Protestant thought.
