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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.
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Earnest, resolved, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Bunyan
- First published
- 1774
- Pages
- 308
- Publisher
- Cumann na Dtráchtas Crabhaidh, Biblio Distribution Centre, Nimmo
- Editions
- 683
- Language
- und, haw, pan, yid
- ISBN
- 9780353599840
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“When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another, which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun.”
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