Author: John BunyanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The History of the Holy War ... Abridged and Adapted for Juvenile Instruction by a Lady
The Holy War
Author: John BunyanLife of John Bunyan
Author: Edmund VenablesPublisher: London : W. Scott ; New York : T. Whittaker
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"All who have undertaken to take an estimate of Bunyan's literary genius call special attention to the richness of his imaginative power. Few writers indeed have possessed this power in so high a degree. In nothing, perhaps, is its vividness more displayed than in the reality of its impersonations. The dramatis persons are not shadowy abstractions, moving far above us in a mystical world, or lay figures ticketed with certain names, but solid men and women of our own flesh and blood, living in our own everyday world, and of like passions with ourselves. Many of them we know familiarly; there is hardly one we should be surprised to meet any day. This lifelike power of characterization belongs in the highest degree to 'The Pilgrim's Progress.' It is hardly inferior in "The Holy War," though with some exceptions the people of 'Mansoul' have failed to engrave themselves on the popular memory as the characters of the earlier allegory have done. The secret of this graphic power, which gives 'The Pilgrim's Progress' its universal popularity, is that Bunyan describes men and women of his own day, such as he had known and seen them. They are not fancy pictures, but literal portraits."--Edmund Venables, M.A. (Author) - Amazon.com
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The holy war, ed. by R. Brown
Author: John BunyanJohn Bunyan
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
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Author: