The Pilgrim's Progress

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The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by the English nonconformist preacher John Bunyan. It is commonly regarded as one of the most significant works of Protestant devotional literature and of wider early-modern English literature. It has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print. The first North American edition was issued in 1681. It also appeared in Dutch in 1681. It appeared in German in 1703, and in Swedish in 1727. The Pilgrim's Progess, as it is commonly called, has also been cited as the first novel written in English. According to the literary editor Robert McCrum, "there's no book in English, apart from the Bible, to equal Bunyan's masterpiece for the range of its readership, or its influence on writers as diverse as William Hogarth, C. S. Lewis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, George Bernard Shaw, William Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Mark...

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