The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream; Wherein Is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out; His Dangerous Journey; and Safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey

xii, 379 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles, fourteen illustrations by William Strang. Religious allegory by John Bunyan, at one time second only to the Bible in popularity. It is a symbolic vision of the pilgrimage through life. The first and best-known book, published in 1678, in which the character Christian travels on the road to salvation from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, is presented as a dream. Written in homely yet dignified biblical prose, the work has some of the qualities of a folktale, and in its humor and realistic portrayals of Mr. Worldly Wiseman, Faithful, Hopeful, Pliant, and Obstinate, it anticipates the 18th-century novel.