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The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers for over three centuries. It is one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature and is a classic of the heroic Puritan tradition and a founding text in the development of the English novel. The story of Christian, whose... read more

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APOLOGY: 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. // NOVEL PROPER: As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream.
 

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