![]() ![]() It was well for Bunyan and his fame - and his lean pocketbook - that he so decided, for what he called his "Scribble" was immediately acclaimed and enjoyed a phenomenal success. I print it will, and so the case decided. Which was the best thing to be done by me Īt last I thought, since you are thus divided, As many said not, arguing that Bunyan had treated sacred matters in too colloquial and familiar a style and manner. In any case, whenever completed, Bunyan showed his manuscript to friends and asked their counsel on whether to publish it or not. But it would not stay there, crowding up front and blazing through his mind "like sparks that from the coals of fire do fly." So many ideas flashed into his mind that he had a hard time in keeping notes for future use.īunyan scholars do not entirely agree, but generally believe that the author wrote most of Pilgrim's Progress (Part I) during his first long imprisonment and completed it during his second incarceration during 1675. Bunyan, wishing to complete the book in hand put the new idea in the back of his mind. He was working hard to finish another book when he conceived the idea of writing a story about the adventures that a devout Christian might meet in trying to save his soul by setting out on a pilgrimage to Heaven. As briefly noted before, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I, was conceived and largely written by Bunyan while he was lying in prison, and he tells us the circumstances. ![]()
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