The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan · 1628–1688
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An allegory told as a dream, partly written in prison by a Baptist tinker: Christian leaves the City of Destruction with a burden on his back and travels through the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair to the Celestial City. Its plain English and living characters made it, for two centuries, one of the most read books in English after the Bible.