Pilgrim's Progress

Noun

Meaning

an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678

Source: WordNet

Examples

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress. Samuel Johnson

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. Carl Jung

Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress. Aldous Huxley

Adaptations * In March, 2015 Director Darren Wilson announced a Kickstarter campaign to produce a full-length feature film based on The Pilgrims Progress called Heaven Quest: A Pilgrim's Progress Movie. Source: Internet

Further allegorical works were to follow: The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), Pilgrim's Progress Part II, and The Holy War (1682). Source: Internet

In 1934, Dom Gregory Murray's anti-proportionalist A Pilgrim's Progress was published. Source: Internet

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