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by John Bunyan (Author), W.R. Owens (Editor) "As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford; New edition edition (9 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192803611
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192803610
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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This new edition does full justice to the text for modern readers. The notes are helpful and scholarly. The introduction is warm and up to date. This is now the best reading edition available. (Roger Pooley, Keele University )

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'As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.' So begins one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring spiritual autobiography, 19 Feb 2006
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The majority of this work was written by Bunyan whilst he was imprisoned as a Nonconformist following the Restoration of 1660. Bunyan's experiences of persecution are deeply inscribed into his Christian allegory. It is a spiritual autobiography by a remarkable man who refused to allow anything to compromise his principles.

But it is also a work that is acutely perceptive and revealing about the psychological condition of the radical Protestant of his time. The visionary society of the English Republic had collapsed and Puritans were no longer the dominant force in society. The pressure was on Bunyan and other spiritual leaders among the Puritans to enthusiastically justify their beliefs and demonstrate their righteousness, as well as their radical credentials.

Bunyan's allegory is sometimes criticised for being too one dimensional, but there is a very good reason that this is one of the most highly read books in English. People in his own time could read between the lines and understand the allusions and social and historical forces that move behind the language; and his contemporary readers share with people since a sympathy in the spiritual experiences described allegorically in what is actually quite a good story.

Though the allegory is ostensibly not as deep as, say, Milton's in Paradise Lost, it is perhaps fair to say that it's tighter and more coherent. The importance of this work as literature cannot be denied, whether or not you agree with the sentiments or accept one's own removal from Bunyan and his contemporaries in history.

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this is the first classic i've had and it got me wanting more its a brillant read please buy it!
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