As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

* Christian, the protagonist in John Bunyan's novel The Pilgrim's Progress

Her story The Land of Far-Beyond is a Christian parable along the lines of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with modern children as the central characters.

As a religious autobiography, Rufus Jones compared it to such works as Augustine's Confessions and John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.

He was especially attracted by John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, and he delighted in reading history.

* John Brown ( writer ) ( 1830 – 1922 ), Doctor of Divinity, pastor of Bunyan's Chapel, and author of many works of theology and church history

The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, first published in 1678 and still widely read at the time of Thackeray's novel.

He wrote The Enchanted Duplicator with Walt Willis in 1954, a piece of fiction about science fiction fandom modelled on John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

The name is taken from John Bunyan's allegorical novel The Pilgrim's Progress.

John Bunyan's tomb ( foreground ) with a memorial to Daniel Defoe ( obelisk, left ) and Willam Blake's grave ( right ) in background.

John Bunyan's tomb

The English novel has generally been seen as beginning with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) and Moll Flanders ( 1722 ), though John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 )

Early Bunyan scholars like John Brown believed The Pilgrim's Progress was begun in Bunyan's second shorter imprisonment for six months in 1675, but more recent scholars like Roger Sharrock believe that it was begun during Bunyan's initial, more lengthy imprisonment from 1660 – 72 right after he had written his spiritual autobiography, < cite > Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners </ cite >.

There were eleven editions of the first part in John Bunyan's lifetime, published in successive years from 1678 to 1685 and in 1688, and there were two editions of the second part, published in 1684 and 1686.

It fits John Bunyan's account of the fair's antiquity and its vast variety of goods sold.

" John Bunyan preached often in Toft, just four miles west of Cambridge, and there is a place known as " Bunyan's Barn " in Toft.

# The " Celestial City " is London, the physical centre of John Bunyan's world — most of his neighbours never travelled that far.

John Buchan was an admirer of Bunyan, and Pilgrim's Progress features significantly in his third Richard Hannay novel, Mr Standfast, which also takes its title from one of Bunyan's characters.

Henry Williamson's The Patriot's Progress references the title of The Pilgrim's Progress and the symbolic nature of John Bunyan's work.

* John Bunyan's Dream Story: the Pilgrim's Progress retold for children and adapted to school reading by James Baldwin.

A slightly expanded and highly dramatized version of John Bunyan's original.

Wyttenbach's university course at Marburg was troubled about the middle of the time by mental unrest, due to the fascination exercised over him by John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

The term is a reference to a character in John Bunyan's classic Pilgrim's Progress, " the Man with the Muck-rake " that rejected salvation to focus on filth.

Notable local Dissenters included John Bunyan, of Bedford, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and another important hymn writer, Philip Doddridge ( 1702 – 51 ), of Northampton.

* The Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 ) by John Bunyan

* John Bunyan writes The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2.

* February 18 – John Bunyan publishes his novel, The Pilgrim's Progress.

She read the Odyssey at the age of nine and enjoyed the works of John Bunyan, especially his 1678 story The Pilgrim's Progress.

An allegorical novel, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come was published by John Bunyan in 1678.

* John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress ( a book translated into more languages than any other apart from the Bible )

* John Bunyan ( 1628 – 1688 ), author of Pilgrim's Progress

It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress.

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678.

Other connections are suggested in books not directly associated with either John Bunyan or The Pilgrim's Progress.

At least twenty-one natural or man-made geographical or topographical features from The Pilgrim's Progress have been identified — places and structures John Bunyan regularly would have seen in his travels on foot or horseback.

John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

Relations faltered somewhat during the administration of President John F. Kennedy, as United States officials began calling for democratic rule and land reform and threatened to withhold Alliance for Progress funds ( an amount equal to about 40 percent of Paraguay's budget ) unless Paraguay made progress.

John Gast ( painter ) | John Gast, American Progress, ( circa 1872 ) celebrates United States | U. S. romantic nationalism in the form of westward expansion – an idea known as " Manifest Destiny ".

** President of the United States John F. Kennedy proposes a long-term " Alliance for Progress " between the United States and Latin America.

New York ’ s Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and New York University ’ s President John Sexton on April 23, 2012, announced an historic agreement between New York City, New York ’ s MTA, and a consortium of world-class academic institutions, and private technology companies, that will lead to the creation in New York of a Center for Urban Science and Progress ( CUSP ).

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

Charles Vallancey, for example, published a work in 1772 attempting to prove that the Irish language was Phoenician, while John Pinkerton's A Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths ( 1787 ) attempted to show that the Scots were Scythians who had originated in Central Asia.

This painting ( circa 1872 ) by John Gast ( painter ) | John Gast called American Progress, is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west.

The original paintings of A Harlot's Progress were destroyed in the fire at Fonthill Abbey in 1755 ; A Rake's Progress is displayed in the gallery room at Sir John Soane's Museum, London.