The Pilgrim's Progress
Christian, weighed down by a burden and a book telling him his city will burn, leaves his family and sets out for the Celestial City. The road takes him through the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair and the Valley of the Shadow of Death, meeting companions and adversaries with names to match. Allegory as adventure, and for two centuries the most read book in English after the Bible.
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Lineage
- parallels ↑ The Divine Comedy
- ↓ Robinson Crusoe
- ↓ Vanity Fair
- ↓ Little Women
- ↓ Young Goodman Brown
- ↓ The Enormous Room
- ↓ The Forest of a Thousand Daemons
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