Books with title Pilgrim's Progress: A John Bunyan Story

Endorsed by J. I. Packer! 13 chapters. Designed for ages 6-12. Includes Glossary and Glossary Index. More than 50 stunning original new illustrations! Includes full-color map of Christian's journey. Great gift for children and grandchildren! This faithful adaptation for young readers is a priceless tool to teach children the gospel and encourage them as they grow deeper in their relationship to Christ. Along with God's Word, it will prepare them to face the trials and joys, temptations and opportunities that every Christian encounters, whether child or adult. Follow along with a pilgrim named Christian as he meets some of the most unforgettable characters in literature —Obstinate, Pliable, Worldly Wiseman, Hopeful, Faithful, and more. Your children will learn important truths of the gospel and gain a richer understanding of who Christ is and his work in the life of a believer.

Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. --Charles SpurgeonOne of the most powerful dramas of Christian faith ever written, this captivating allegory of man's religious journey in search of salvation follows the pilgrim as he travels an obstacle-filled road to the Celestial City. Along the way, he is confronted by monsters and spiritual terrors, among them Worldly Wiseman, Giant Despair, and the demons of the Valley of the Shadow of Death. An enormously influential 17th-century classic, that continues to be universally known for its simplicity, vigor, and beauty of language:"I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book."

The notes of Rev. Robert Maguire were compiled from the footnotes of John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," an edition published by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c. 1863. This companion volume includes a short introduction to each chapter which is followed by notes, comments and symbolic meanings. All remarks are maintained in the same chapter and order they originally appeared. Explanations of names and events add depth and richness for any reader of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

Time would fail and space forbids us to expatiate on the beauties of the book. The more we study it, the more do we feel how much it deserves its matchless popularity; and the more cordially do we recommend it to the careful perusal of our readers. Our desire and prayer is, that some of them may be influenced by Bunyan’s pleasant companionship and wise guidance to commence, or, if they have commenced already, to persevere in and complete the pilgrimage which he so graphically describes.

The entire book is presented as a dream sequence narrated by an omniscient narrator. The allegory's protagonist, Christian, is an everyman character, and the plot centres on his journey from his hometown, the "City of Destruction" ("this world"), to the "Celestial City" ("that which is to come": Heaven) atop Mount Zion. Christian is weighed down by a great burden—the knowledge of his sin—which he believed came from his reading "the book in his hand" (the Bible).