John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
| Conditie | redelijk [toplaag kaft op diverse plekken beschadigd (zie afb.), binding pocket goed] |
| Aantal pagina`s | 308 |
| Uitgavejaar | 1957 |
| Uitgegeven door | Pocket Books |
| Kaft | paperback [pocket] |
| ISBN | niet bekend |
| Code [intern] | WEG 1-A |
Beschrijving boek
With an Introduction by Alexander M. Witherspoon.
The Pocket Library.
The Pilgrim’s Progress is read today less often for its religious content than for the stimulation provided by the author’s great creative imagination and almost uncanny insights into human foibles.
Kipling called Bunyan ‘father of the novel,’ and indeed most of the essential elements of the English novel are first to be found in The Pilgrim’s Progress. Its story of Christian, a devout and humble man, and his adventures along the highway of life, is, in effect, the same story line which is the basis of the plots of many contemporary novels.
But John Bunyan was a writer vastly different from most modern novelists. Relatively un-educated, his inspiration was the Bible and his deep and unswerving religious convictions. The Pilgrim’s Progress was begun while he was in jail in 1675, and its first part was published in 1678. It is both ironic and illuminating to recall that this dissenter, locked up to silence his criticism of the Established Church, used this opportunity to create the most influential religious book ever written in the English language.
