1866 The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is To Come

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one hundred in-text images. Regarded as one of the most significant works of theological fiction in English literature, this Christian allegory presented as a dream sequence has been translated into over two hundred languages and has never been out of print. The allegory's protagonist, Christian, is an everyman character, and the plot centres on his journey from his hometown, the "City of Destruction", to the "Celestial City" atop Mount Zion. Written by John Bunyan, an English writer and Puritan preacher. Illustrated by Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel, an English engraver known chiefly for his illustrations of the work of Charles Dickens. With a memoir of the author from Henry William Dulcken, an English translator and children's writer, best known for translating the stories of Hans Christian Andersen.