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The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to
That Which Is to Come is a
Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678. 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. Bunyan began his work while in the Bedfordshire county gaol
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, but more recent scholars
like Roger Sharrock believe that it was begun during Bunyan's initial, more
lengthy imprisonment from 1660-1672 right after he had written his spiritual
autobiography, Grace
Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.
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 December 22, 1677. It was licensed and entered in the
"Term Catalogue" on February 18, 1678, which is looked upon as the
date of first publication. 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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