The Pilgrim's Progress to the Heavenly Country

«The Pilgrim's Progress» — the most famous work of Bunyan, he started working on it during his first imprisonment and finished it during his second. The book is an allegorical journey of the Christian to the Heavenly City. «The Progress» instantly gained immense popularity, during the author's lifetime it had 11 reprints and sold over 100,000 copies, and at one time was considered the most read book in English after the Bible. Bunyan's work had a huge influence on the creativity of Swift, Thackeray, and Dickens as well as Louisa May Alcott and became iconic for many generations of Protestants.