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Time was when this allegory of moral redemption tied the KING
JAMES BIBLE as Most Read Book in the English language. Now Penguin
enlists TV''s Hercule Poirot to help lift it out of the obscurity to
which today''s secular world has consigned it. Suchet''s musical,
expressive voice clarifies and contemporizes the
three-hundred-year-old vocabulary. His characterizations are vivid
and cartoony. Indeed, Suchet plays this as a kid''s book, which it
can, but need not, be. The chief f
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A new edition of one of the greatest allegorical stories ever
written A masterpiece of the English Puritan tradition, "The
Pilgrimas Progress" is rich in its imaginative power and its vivid
and heartfelt language. It recounts the story of Christian, who
appears to the author in a dream, and his journey to Heaven through
the trials and tribulations of life. He meets many like-minded
pilgrims on his way, such as Faithful and Hopeful, but before they
attain their goal they encounter the Giant Despair and the River of
Death itself. Translated into more than one hundred languages, "The
Pilgrimas Progress" continues to have an immeasurable influence on
English literature.