The Works of John Bunyan

About the Author

John Bunyan was a tinker in Bedford who was converted through the ministry of a small Nonconformist congregation and became one of the most gifted preachers of seventeenth-century England. He spent twelve years in Bedford jail for preaching without a license, and it was during his imprisonment that he wrote Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, the account of his own spiritual pilgrimage. The Pilgrim’s Progress, published in 1678, is among the most widely read books in the English language — an allegory that has carried the gospel into homes, schools, and churches across many centuries and cultures.