| Reviews |
| - '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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| Description | | - The only complete
text in paperback, including all the marginal notes of the original, in original spelling.
- The first edition to include all the original illustrations to appear in editions printed in Bunyan's lifetime, thus giving a unique sense of the experience of the book for it contemporary readers.
- The new introduction is written in a clear, accessible style with sections on Bunyan's life and times; allegory; the Bible; Literature and Theology; social satire and endurance under persecution
- Includes a new chronology of Bunyan's life and times.
- New bibliography.
- New and expanded explanatory notes, and a separate glossary of unfamiliar words.
- Full index.
| '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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Readership: Students and readers of seventeenth-century fiction, early modern English Literature, the novel in English, allegory, religious/Christian literature
| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
John Bunyan
Edited by W. R. Owens, Senior Lecturer in Literature, Open University
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