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Bunyan, John

Born November 1628 in Elstow; died Aug. 31, 1688, in London. English writer. Son of a village tinsmith, and a coppersmith himself.

At the time of the English Revolution of the 17th century Bunyan became a Puritan preacher. During the Restoration he spent 12 years in prison and there wrote the allegorical novel The Pilgrim’s Progress (parts 1–2, 1678–84; Russian translation, 1878). In Bunyan’s novel religious moralizing is combined with attacks on the aristocracy and bourgeoisie. In The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), Bunyan for the first time in English literature satirically portrayed a bourgeois moneygrubber. The allegorical image of “vanity fair” which one finds in Bunyan’s works was used by W. Thackeray in a novel of the same name.

WORKS

The Entire Works, vols. 1–4. [London, 1859–60.]
In Russian translation:
Bun’ian, loan. Sochineniia, 3rd ed., parts 1–4. Moscow, 1819.

REFERENCES

Istoriia angliiskoi literatury, vol. 1, 2nd issue. Moscow-Leningrad, 1945.
Lindsay, J. J. Bunyan, Maker of Myths. London, 1937.
Talon, H. A. John Bunyan. London [and elsewhere], 1956.

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No references found	It was into this stern world that little John Bunyan was born, and just as a stern religious struggle was going on in England so a stern religious struggle went on within his little heart. English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context This very neat and spacious edifice is erected on the site of the little wicket gate, which formerly, as all old pilgrims will recollect, stood directly across the highway, and, by its inconvenient narrowness, was a great obstruction to the traveller of liberal mind and expansive stomach The reader of John Bunyan will be glad to know that Christian's old friend Evangelist, who was accustomed to supply each pilgrim with a mystic roll, now presides at the ticket office. Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context Sometimes, when much excited with his subject, he had an odd way - compounded of John Bunyan, and Balfour of Burley - of taking his great quarto Bible under his arm and pacing up and down the pulpit with it; looking steadily down, meantime, into the midst of the congregation. American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context	John Arthur Gielgud John Atanasoff John Atkinson Hobson John B. Yeon State Scenic Corridor John Bach McMaster John Ball John Baptist de la Salle, Saint John Bardeen John Barrymore John Barton John Bates Clark John Beaver Marks John Bell John Bellers John Birch Society John Biscoe John Bosco, Saint John Boyd Thacher State Park John Boynton Priestley John Broadus Watson John Brown John Brown Farm State Historic Site John Brown's Body John Bryan State Park John Bull John Bunyan John Burdon Sanderson Haldane John Burns John Burroughs Memorial State Historic Site John Byron John Calvin John Carew Eccles John Carter Brown Library John Christian Watson John Chrysostom John Chrysostom, Saint John Clarke Slater John Clerk John Climacus John Climax, Saint John Colet John Constable John Cornford John Cowdery Kendrew John Crerar Library John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation John D. MacArthur Beach State Park John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway John Dalton John Damascene	John Braithwaite Community Centre John Breckenridge John Bright John Broadus Watson John Broadus Watson John Brown John Brown John Brown John Brown (disambiguation) John Brown (disambiguation) John Brown Anti-Klan Committee John Brown Citrus Publishing John Brown Farm State Historic Site John Brown Hydrocarbons John Brown South Africa John Brown University John Brown's Army John Brown's Baby John Brown's Body John Brown's Tractor John Browning John Bruton John Bryan State Park John Bryan State Park John Bryan State Park Observatory John Buchan John Bull John Bull John Bull John Bullism John Bunyan John Burdon Sanderson Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane John Burgoyne John Burgoyne John Burgoyne's Surrender Day John Buridan John Burke John burke krasinski John Burns John Burns Real Estate Consulting John Burridge Military Antiques John Burroughs John Burroughs High School John Burroughs Memorial State Historic Site John Burroughs School John Butler John Butler Trio John Byrne Forum John Byron John C Campbell Folk School John C Hart Memorial Library John C. Calhoun John C. Coolidge John C. Coolidge John C. Coolidge, Jr. John C. Coolidge, Jr. John C. Fremont

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It was into this stern world that little John Bunyan was born, and just as a stern religious struggle was going on in England so a stern religious struggle went on within his little heart.

English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context

This very neat and spacious edifice is erected on the site of the little wicket gate, which formerly, as all old pilgrims will recollect, stood directly across the highway, and, by its inconvenient narrowness, was a great obstruction to the traveller of liberal mind and expansive stomach The reader of John Bunyan will be glad to know that Christian's old friend Evangelist, who was accustomed to supply each pilgrim with a mystic roll, now presides at the ticket office.

Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

Sometimes, when much excited with his subject, he had an odd way - compounded of John Bunyan, and Balfour of Burley - of taking his great quarto Bible under his arm and pacing up and down the pulpit with it; looking steadily down, meantime, into the midst of the congregation.

American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context

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John B. Yeon State Scenic Corridor

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