Bunyan Pilgrim Progress

Owens, W. R. / Sim, Stuart (eds): Reception, Appropriation, Recollection. Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress". Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien Peter Lang Vlg. 2007. ISBN: 978-3-03910-720-9
The ten essays that make up this volume are drawn from papers delivered at the fourth triennial conference of the International John Bunyan Society. A theme of the conference was the extraordinary reception history of The Pilgrim's Progress: how it has been translated, adapted, illustrated and read within different cultures over the past three centuries. As contributors here demonstrate, Bunyan's book has influenced - in sometimes unexpected ways - writers as diverse as Dickens, George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, Mary Ward, William Hale White, Louis MacNeice and Samuel Beckett. Through the agency of missionary translators it circulated internationally, and in the process was transformed and read in a wide variety of ways by different groups of readers. Romantic critics including Southey, Scott and Macaulay established it as a 'classic' text, but illustrators, editors and publishers also figured importantly in the process of its literary canonisation. Bunyan even made a brief appearance in one of the most famous films of the Second World War, Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death. What the volume as a whole reveals is the extraordinary influence of The Pilgrim's Progress and its continuing capacity to inspire the imagination of all kinds of readers.

253 pp. Pb. *neuwertig*

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Alfred P. Gibbs, Preface, A Dreamer and His Wonderful Dream: The Story of John Bunyan and the Pilgrim's Progress in Beige & Black Dustjacket of Man Seated on Bench By Brick Wall in Cell. Attempt Has Been Made in This Volume to Re-Emphasize the Sound Scriptual Teaching of the Pilg, Gospel Folio Press, Michigan 1935 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover

HBDJ, Stated Second Edition, 1935, FINE-/VG+, AS-IS, DJ Light wear rub & tiny Chips extremities, DJ spine Top end small chip by Titles Intact.Green Tweed cloth Titled in Gold Gilt on spine, 195 pgs, Cvr light wear. DJ protected in Clear Mylar. 5 X 7 3/4 in. . Attempt has been made in this volume to re-emphasize the Sound Scriptual Teaching of the Pilgrim's Progress especially in Young people. Very Good Hard Cover

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Bunyan, John - Savage, Reginald (Ill.): The Pilgrims Progress from this World to that which is to come. (...) London: Essex House Press für Edward Arnold, 1899. ; fester Einband / hard cover
Eins von nur 750 handnumerierten Exemplaren; unbeschnitten und im Originaleinband. Gedruckt in der Caslon-Antiqua auf handgeschöpftes Bütten der Firma Batchelor; in Festigkeit und Struktur dem der Kelmscott Press gleich, auch die Druckerschwärze entsprach der von Morris verwandten. - Bunyan (1628-1688), puritanischer Geistlicher und Prediger, den Baptisten bisweilen nahe, doch in seiner Gemeinde für Offenheit, war der größte Schriftsteller, den die puritanische Bewegung hervorbrachte. "The Pilgrim's Progress", sein literarisches Hauptwerk, ist der Höhepunkt einer alten allegorischen Tradition, ohne die metaphorische und interpretatorische Weite der mittelalterlichen Allegorien, was jedoch nicht die visionäre Kraft beeinträchtigt. Dargestellt wird, archetypisch überhöht, der Weg des Einzelnen durch Gefährdungen und Anfechtungen hin zu Gott. Durch seinen Realismus wurde das Werk Vorläufer des bürgerlichen englischen Romans. Ein zweiter, später erschienener Fortsetzungsteil blieb weit hinter dem zurück. - | - Erhaltungszustand: Einband leicht fleckig; Büttenränder minimal angestaubt, sonst wohlerhalten. - | - Original vellum, uncut, one of 750 numbered copies printed. "Bunyan wrote this book in Bedford Gaol, which may bring hope and consolation to some of the myriads of those imprisoned for conscience' sake since this day. The popularity of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' may be judged from its having been reprinted so early and so often. (...) Now it is universally known and loved, and the parable of salvation is accepted by all denominations. Its language has become common to all and its prose style has profoundly affected later writters" (PMM 156). - | - Tomkinson 68,4 - Ransom 264,4.

Duodecimo. ca. 147 x 108 mm. [4], 426, [3], [3 weiße] Seiten. Mit einem Holzschnittfrontispiz von Reginald Savage; durchweg in rot und schwarz gedruckt. Original-Pergamenteinband mit schwarzgeprägtem Rückentitel, eingeschlagene Vorderkanten. Buchblock unbeschnitten.

[SW: Bunyan, John 1899 Pilgrims Progress from this World to that which illustriert2 illustriert Mystik Theologie Puritaner Allegorie Illustration Philosophie Pressendrucke Christentum Savage, Reginald]

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Bunyan, John. Salkinsohn, Yitzhak [TR]. Sefer Halichot Oreah [THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, HEBREW] [VOLUME I] London Alex. Macintosh 1843
The book is in : Hebrew Christianity Haskalah - Jewish Enlightenment

EXTREMELY RARE! First volume of the first Hebrew edition of The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan's classical Christian allegory on Salvation and Grace. The translation was commissioned by a missionary society in London, and was made by the Jewish-Polish convert Yitzhak Salkinsohn, who is better known for his Hebrew translation of the New Testament and Shakespeare's plays. 180x110mm, 186 pages. Grey quarter-cloth hardcover. Cover worn. Spine slightly stained. Spine edges slightly bumped. Pages yellowing. Pencil inscription on title page. Pen inscription on last few pages. Stamp on page 186. Save for the aforementioned wear, this first Hebrew translation of an English classic is in good condition.

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