THE ATHENAEUMThe Pilgrim’s ProgressJohn Bunyan
Allegory
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textChristian leaves the City of Destruction with a burden on his back and walks through the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair and the Valley of the Shadow of Death towards the Celestial City. Bunyan, a tinker and preacher, began it in Bedford gaol, and it was published in 1678. For two hundred years it stood in nearly every English home that had books at all.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 50 min
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #131. In the public domain in the United States.