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Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity Fair, Doubting Castle, the Wicket Gate, as well as those who tempt him from his path (e.g., Talkative, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, the Giant Despair). But in the end he reaches Beulah Land, where he awaits the crossing of the river of death and his entry into the heavenly city. "Pilgrim's Progress" was enormously influential not only as a best-selling inspirational tract in the late 17th century, but as an ancestor of the 18th-century English novel, and many of its themes and ideas have entered permanently into Western culture.
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An anonymous continuation of The pilgrim's progress, written in imitation of Bunyan's style, and originally published in English in 1693.
Parts 1 and 2 published at Ephrata, Pennsylvania in 1754.
"Das angenehme Opfer oder Die Vortrefflichkeit eines zerbrochenen Hertzens: Vorstellende die Kenn-Zeichen, Eigenschafften und wahre Würckungen eines zerschlagenen Geistes. Verfasset von dem berühmten Prediger und treuen Diener Jesu Christi. Johann Bunjan. Als welches seine letzte Schrifft war, und zu Londen von Johann Gwittin Anno 1702 aussgegeben worden: und nun aus der 4ten Auflage um seiner Wichtigkeit willen, also zu diesen Hart-Hertzigen Zeiten nicht unnöthig, ins Deutsche übersetzt, von einem Gutmeynenden", p. [1]-151, 2nd count, has separate dated title page with imprint: Germantown: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur, 1755. It was first printed in English under title: The acceptable sacrifice: or The excellency of a broken heart, in London, 1689.
Signatures: A-S⁸ (A1, K1 versos blank) (gathering L missigned B) T⁴
Engraved head and tail pieces.
Evans 7372.
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1402.
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1403.
Bötte & Tannhof. German printing, 173.
Bötte & Tannhof. German printing, 174.
ESTC W6968.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary worn full calf with remnants of clasps.
John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from the Library Company of Philadelphia and formerly in the collection of Michael Zinman.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Andrew Lesher: ms. autograph on verso of front flyleaf; H. Nelson Meyers, Greencastle, Pa.: book stamp on verso of front flyleaf.
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