The Pilgrim's Progress

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1. (1678, 1684) A religious allegory by the seventeenth-century English author John Bunyan. Christian, the central character, journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Along the way he faces many obstacles, including the Slough of Despond. He is eventually successful in his journey, and is allowed into heaven.

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The low opinion in which allegory is now widely held can be blamed on The Pilgrim’s Progress.

From Slate ● May 3, 2016

Yet The Pilgrim’s Progress was a colossal hit; for two centuries, it was the second book purchased by any Protestant household affluent and literate enough to own its own Bible.

From Slate ● May 3, 2016

Certainly it is odd not to have The Pilgrim's Progress but to have a novel whose title is derived from it – Vanity Fair.

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012

This motif, sounding like an ecstatic awakening, obsessed him: he used it in The Pilgrim's Progress to denote the Christian pilgrim arriving at his goal, the Celestial City.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010

Nearly all children are interested in The Pilgrim's Progress, and will listen with eagerness to the romantic and adventurous side of Christian's experience, but not, of course, to the didactic and theological passages.

From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock

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