Well, I have read Pilgrim's Progress before, but didn't remember much about it. The Slough of Despond stuck in my memory, possibly because I didn't know how to pronounce "slough" (like dough? like tough?)
Christian travels to the Celestial City, meeting various characters along the way. Some, like Evangelist and Faithful, help him; others hinder him and tempt him to stray from the straight and narrow way. I was a little shocked that Christian was willing to leave his wife and children behind, and am glad to know that in the second part (which I haven't read yet) they make the same journey.
Although the spiritual allegory is clear, Bunyan's ability to tell a story in simple, descriptive language makes Pilgrim's Progress worth reading even for an atheist like me.
The book was first published around 1678 to 1684, and possibly written while Bunyan was in prison for religious dissent.
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