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The Pilgrim's Progress
''The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream'' is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan (1628–1688) and published in February, 1678. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature,〔"The two parts of ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' in reality constitute a whole, and the whole is, without doubt, the most influential religious book ever written in the English language" (Alexander M. Witherspoon in his introduction, John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' (New York: Pocket Books, 1957), vi.〕〔John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', W.R. Owens, ed., Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), xiii.〕〔Abby Sage Richardson, ''Familiar Talks on English Literature: A Manual'' (Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1892), 221.〕〔"For two hundred years or more no other English book was so generally known and read" (James Baldwin in his foreword, James Baldwin, ''John Bunyan's Dream Story'' (New York: American Book Co., 1913), 6).〕 has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print.〔John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', W.R. Owens, ed., Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), xiii: "...the book has never been out of print. It has been published in innumerable editions, and has been translated into over two hundred languages."〕〔F.L. Cross, ed., ''The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), 1092 ''sub loco''.〕 Bunyan began his work while in the Bedfordshire county prison for violations of the Conventicle Act, which prohibited the holding of religious services outside the auspices of the established Church of England. Early Bunyan scholars like John Brown believed ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' was begun in Bunyan's second, shorter imprisonment for six months in 1675,〔John Brown, ''John Bunyan: His Life, Times and Work'', (1885, revised edition 1928)〕 but more recent scholars like Roger Sharrock believe that it was begun during Bunyan's initial, more lengthy imprisonment from 1660–72 right after he had written his spiritual autobiography, ''Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners''.〔John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', edited with an introduction by Roger Sharrock, (Harmondsworth: Penguins Books, Ltd., 1965), 10, 59, 94, 326-27, 375.〕
The English text comprises 108,260 words and is divided into two parts, each reading as a continuous narrative with no chapter divisions. The first part was completed in 1677 and entered into the Stationers' Register on 22 December 1677. It was licensed and entered in the "Term Catalogue" on 18 February 1678, which is looked upon as the date of first publication.〔"The copy for the first edition of the First Part of ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' was entered in the Stationers' Register on 22 December 1677 ... The book was licensed and entered in the Term Catalogue for the following Hilary Term, 18 February 1678; this date would customarily indicate the time of publication, or only slightly precede it" (Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', James Blanton Wharey and Roger Sharrock, eds., Second Edition, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), xxi ).〕 After the first edition of the first part in 1678, an expanded edition, with additions written after Bunyan was freed, appeared in 1679. The Second Part appeared in 1684. There were eleven editions of the first part in John Bunyan's lifetime, published in successive years from 1678 to 1685 and in 1688, and there were two editions of the second part, published in 1684 and 1686.
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