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John Bunyan

Posted by Tel on June 23, 2009

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

English Writer and Preacher

John Bunyan was a great English writer who communicated his religious beliefs and ideas through storytelling and allegory. He is famous for his masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress.

John Bunyan was born on November 30, 1628, in Elstow, Bedfordshire, near London in a village where his family had been farmers for generations. He hardly received any education and seemed destined to lead a simple existence until two events that changed everything.

 
Works by John Bunyan
  • Grace Abounding to the chief of Sinners, 1666 
  • A Confession of my Faith, and a Reason of my Practice, 1672
  • The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1678
  • The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, 1680
  • The Holy War, 1682 (or The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul)
  • The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II, 1684
  • A Book for Boys and Girls, 1686

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