The Pilgrim’s Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream; reproduction of 1898 Houghton, Mifflin and Co. edition with notes by William Vaughn Moody

Description “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.”   John Bunyan’s classic allegory presents the life of a Christian as a physical pilgrimage to Heaven, the Celestial City, along a path strewn with peril and temptation.  A text awash with virtue, vice, sacrilege and martyrdom, The Pilgrim’s Progress is a tale that has enchanted readers for more than three hundred years, but, as Vaughan William’s morality proved, the lessons imparted are not confined to any one faith or worldview; they are in fact truly universal.  The seductive Vanity Fair, the valiant crossing of the River of Death, the defeat of the Giant Despair, these are tropes in which we can all share.   “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is here presented in a reproduction of the 1898 Houghton, Mifflin and Co. edition, comprising the first part of the narrative and extensive notes by William Vaughn Moody, not to mention a superlative introduction.  Further volumes containing the second part, William Blake’s illustrations and a complete scholarly analysis suitable for students at degree level are in preparation.