The Pilgrim’s Progress
John Bunyan, 1678
A tinker in a Bedford jail dreams a man running from his own conscience, through a monster, a fair and a river — the strangest, most gripping allegory in English.
John Bunyan
1628–1688
Bunyan left school around fourteen to work as a tinker, fought on the Parliamentary side in the civil war, and preached to crowds of hundreds with almost no formal education.
Feels like faith, hope and dread.
The moment a weight you had stopped noticing finally comes off your back.
So I saw in my dream, that just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do, till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more. Books by John Bunyan
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