The pilgrim's progress / The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert
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New York : P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1909, 1937.
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418 pages : 22 cm.
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Published
New York : P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1909, 1937.
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Book
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English
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The Harvard Classic Series.
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The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print. The allegory of this book has antecedents in a large number of Christian devotional works that speak of the soul's path to Heaven, from the Lyke-Wake Dirge forward. Bunyan's allegory stands out above his predecessors because of his simple and effective prose style, steeped in Biblical texts and cadences. He confesses his own naïveté in the verse prologue to the book: ". . . I did not think To shew to all the World my Pen and Ink In such a mode; I only thought to make I knew not what: nor did I undertake Thereby to please my Neighbour; no not I; I did it mine own self to gratifie." John Bunyan himself wrote a popular hymn that encourages a hearer to become a pilgrim-like Christian: All Who Would Valiant Be. The explicit Protestant theology of The Pilgrim's Progress made it much more popular than its predecessors. Bunyan's plain style breathes life into the abstractions of the anthropomorphized temptations and abstractions that Christian encounters and with whom he converses on his course to Heaven. Samuel Johnson said that "this is the great merit of the book, that the most cultivated man cannot find anything to praise more highly, and the child knows nothing more amusing." Three years after its publication (1681), it was reprinted in colonial America, and was widely read in the Puritan colonies.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bunyan, J., & Walton, I. (19091937). The pilgrim's progress: The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert . P.F. Collier & Son Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bunyan, John and Izaak. Walton. 19091937. The Pilgrim's Progress: The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert. P.F. Collier & Son Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bunyan, John and Izaak. Walton. The Pilgrim's Progress: The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 19091937.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bunyan, John., and Izaak Walton. The Pilgrim's Progress: The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 19091937.
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