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The Pilgrim's Progress

Contents

  • Preface
  • List of Illustrations
  • A Note on the Text
  • The Text of The Pilgrim's Progress
  • Frontispiece to Part I (1678)
  • The Author's Apology For His Book
  • The Pilgrim's Progress: In the Similitude of a Dream
  • The Conclusion
  • Frontispiece to Part II (1684)
  • The Author's way of Sending Forth His Second Part of the Pilgrim
  • The Pilgrim's Progress in the Similitude of a Dream, The Second Part
  • Contexts
  • BIOGRAPHICAL
  • John Bunyan, from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)
  • Charles Doe, The Life and Death of Mr. John Bunyan (1708)
  • GEOGRAPHICAL AND VISUAL
  • Map of Elstow, Bedfordshire
  • John Brown, from Bunyan's Home (1890)
  • Advertisement to the sixth edition (1681)
  • "London to Aberistwith," from John Ogilby, Britannia (1675)
  • "A Plan of the Road from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City" (c.1780)
  • "House Beautiful," from the X edition (17xx), engraving by J. Sturt
  • "Doubting Castle," from the X edition (17xx), engraving by J. Sturt
  • "Christiana and her Children at Supper in the Interpreter's House," from the X edition (17xx), engraving by J. Sturt
  • "Christian and Apollyon," from 19thC chapbook
  • "Faithful's martyrdom and Giant Despair," from 19thC chapbook
  • "Palace Beautiful," from 19thC chapbook
  • Emily A. Rudd, Dramatised Scenes from "The Pilgrim's Progress" (1912)
  • THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY
  • John Foxe, from Actes and Monuments (The Book of Martyrs), 1563, 1641, 1741
  • Arthur Dent, from The Plaine Mans Path-way to Heaven (1601)
  • Lewis Bayly, from The Practice of Piety (1612)
  • John Bunyan, from The Doctrine of Law and Grace Unfolded (1659)
  • Robert Boyle, from Occasional Reflections (1665; 1669), "A Discourse Touching Occasional Meditations"; "Upon his manner of giving Meat to his Dog"; "Upon his Paring of a rare Summer-Apple"; "Upon hearing of a Lute first tun'd, and then excellently play'd on." [8]
  • Joseph Hall, from Occasionall Meditations (1630): "On a fair prospect"; "Vpon occasion of a Spider in his Window"; "Vpon the sight of a Crow pulling off wooll from the backe of a Sheepe"; "Vpon the sight of two Snayles"; "Vpon Herbes dryed"; "Vpon the sight of Grapes"; "Vpon the sight of Tulipaes and Marygolds, &c. in his Garden."
  • John Bunyan, from A Book for Boys and Girls (1686)
  • ABRIDGEMENTS AND ADAPTATIONS
  • S. M., The Heavenly Passenger: or, The Pilgrims Progress, From this World, to that which is to come. Deliver'd under the Similitude of a Dream… Newly done into Verse (1687)
  • Thomas Sherman, from The Second Part of the Pilgrim's Progress (1682)
  • John Wesley, The Pilgrim's Progress … Abridg'd by John Wesley (1741, 5th ed.)
  • The Christian Pilgrim: Containing an Account of the Wonderful Adventures and Miraculous Escapes of a Christian, in his Travels from the Land of Destruction to the New Jerusalem (Vermont, 1811)
  • Joshua Gilpin, from The Pilgrim's Progress … by John Bunyan. A new and corrected Edition, in which the phraseology of the Author is somewhat improved, some of his obscurities elucidated, and some of his redundancies done away (1811)
  • T. Dibdin, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Metrically Condensed. In Six Cantos (1834)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Celestial Rail-road (1843)
  • Samuel Phillips Day, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable (1872)
  • [W. White,] The Prisoner and His Dream. A Ballad (1872)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams, Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains (1925)
  • Geoffrey T. Bull, A New Pilgrim's Progress: John Bunyan's Classic Imagined in a Modern Setting (1974)
  • Maurice Sagoff, from Shrinklits: Seventy of the World's Towering Works Cut Down to Size, "Pilgrim's Progress" (1980)
  • Criticism
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [Allegory and Style] (1820-30)
  • Sir Walter Scott, [Bunyan and Spenser] (1830)
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay, [The Highest Miracle of Genius] (1832)
  • James Anthony Froude, [The Failure of Part II] (1880)
  • Sir Charles Firth, [The Popularity of The Pilgrim's Progress] (1898)
  • George Bernard Shaw, [The Artist-Philosopher] (1903)
  • Henri Talon, [Pilgrim's Progress as a Work of Art] (1951)
  • F. R. Leavis, [Marxists and Mobs] (1952)]
  • Dorothy Van Ghent, "On The Pilgrim's Progress" (1953)
  • J. Paul Hunter, "Metaphor, Type, Emblem, and the Pilgrim 'Allegory'" (1966)
  • David J. Alpaugh, [Emblem and Interpretation] (1966)
  • C. S. Lewis, ["The Vision of John Bunyan"] (1969)
  • Stanley Fish, ["Progress in The Pilgrim's Progress"] (1972)
  • James Turner, ["Bunyan's Sense of Place"] (1980)
  • Cynthia Wall, [Bunyan and Maps] (2006)
  • Kathleen M. Swaim, [The Feminine Heroic] (1990)
  • Barbara A. Johnson, [Bunyan as First Reader] (1992)]
  • Gerda S. Norvig, [Blake's Illustrations] (1993)
  • Maxine Hancock, [Bunyan's Marginal Notes] (2000)
  • Isabel Hofmeyr, [How Bunyan Became English] (2002)
  • John Bunyan: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography

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