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The Pilgrim's Progress (In Modern English)

by John Bunyan

in ePub. mobi & .pdf formats

Published in 1678. In modern English, yet preserving Bunyan's original meaning, doctrine and quaintness of expression. By Grace Gems

We encourage you to listen to this professionally recorded AUDIO, while you read along with the text:

Chapters 1 - 15
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Chapters 16 - 30
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The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print. It has also been cited as the first novel written in English.

Bunyan began his work while in the Bedfordshire county prison for violations of the Conventicle Act of 1664, which prohibited the holding of religious services outside the auspices of the established Church of England. Early Bunyan scholars such as John Brown believed The Pilgrim's Progress was begun in Bunyan's second, shorter imprisonment for six months in 1675, but more recent scholars such as Roger Sharrock believe that it was begun during Bunyan's initial, more lengthy imprisonment from 1660 to 1672 right after he had written his spiritual autobiography Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.

"Next to the Bible, the book that I value most is Pilgrim’s Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times…Prick him anywhere, and you will find that his blood is “bibline,” the very essence of the Bible flows from him." – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)

The Pilgrim's Progress can be read in its original language here and here.

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Table of Contents

1. The City of Destruction

2. Obstinate and Pliable

3. The Swamp of Despond

4. Mr. Worldly Wiseman

5. The Narrow Gate

6. The House of the Interpreter

7. The Cross

8. Simple, Sloth and Presumption

9. Formalist and Hypocrisy

10. The Hill Difficulty

11. Timorous and Mistrust

12. The Palace Beautiful

13. Battle with Apollyon

14. The Valley of the Shadow of Death

15. Christian Meets with Faithful

16. Talkative

17. Vanity Fair

18. Mr. By-ends

19. The Hill Lucre

20. By-path Meadow

21. Doubting Castle

22. The Delectable Mountains

23. Ignorance

24. The Flatterer

25. Atheist

26. The Enchanted Ground

27. Ignorance Rejoins the Pilgrims

28. Beulah Land

29. The River of Death

30. The Celestial City

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