John Bunyan was an English writer and nonconformist preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model. In
1684 portrait of Bunyan by Thomas Sadler
Bunyan's High Street cottage in Elstow
Bunyan in prison, as imagined in 1881
Bunyan's effigy on his grave in Bunhill Fields
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by the English nonconformist preacher John Bunyan. It is commonly regarded as one of the most sign
John Bunyan
…John Bunyan (; 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and nonconformist preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons…
Burdened Christian flees from home
William Blake: Christian Reading in His Book (Plate 2, 1824–1827)
Christian enters the Wicket Gate, opened by Goodwill. Engraving from a 1778 edition printed in England.