Few books besides the Bible have been translated ,printed, and read as often as the Pilgrim's Progress. John Banyans classic allegory of christian ,the Pilgrim, on his perilous journey to the Celestial city has touched hearts and minds for more than theree hundred years-and still the demand continues .the best part of English Puritanism has here its most adequate and characteristic expression, while the intensity of Bunyan's religious fervor and the universality of the spiritual problems he deals wits have elevated the work into a great religious classic of the world. The Life of Dordogne was written by Walton in 1640 as an introduction to a collection of Donne's sermons; and thirythy years later was issued in volume with lives of Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, and George Herbert, the charming personality of Walton himself, and the clarity and delicacy of a style of high artistic simplicity ,set off a narrative in whichfacts are not allowed to obscure the outlines of a character drawn with loving admiration,Fwe bulky official lives succeed in giving readers so vivid a picture of personality as these aketches from the hand of lzaak Walton.
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