One of the best known allegories ever written, John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, portrays the journey of a Christian in a colorful narrative format, filled with vivid and full human portraits of its characters. With over 100,000 copies sold in Bunyan’s lifetime, this “most perfect and complex of fairy tales” has continued to attract readers and scholars throughout the centuries following its 1678 publication. This volume also contains short biographies of John Donne and George Herbert, written by their contemporary, British biographer Izaak Walton. In Walton’s brief portraits, he seeks to evoke not so much the facts of these men’s lives, but their personality and character.
The Harvard Classics
Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics.
