The Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English (Pure Gold Classic) (Pure Gold Classics)
by John Bunyan
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Author: John BunyanContributor: L. Edward Hazelbaker
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-07-01
ISBN: 0882707574
Number of pages: 474
Publisher: Bridge-Logos Publishers
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Book Review: Pure Gold Classics edition of Pilgrim's Progress Stands Out in a Crowd
Summary: 5 Stars
Several weeks ago in my Sunday School class, we were talking about C.S. Lewis. His book Pilgrim's Regress was mentioned, so I asked if I should read Pilgrim's Progress first before reading the C.S. Lewis book. Many people said "no" and went on to say that I should avoid Pilgrim's Progress because of the old style of English used by the author, John Bunyan. I wasn't terribly put off by that, but when I went to a bookstore to buy a copy, thinking it would be nice to read for Lent, all I could find was this version. Standing in the bookstore, I started reading Bunyan's apology for his work, which is included by L. Edward Hazelbaker without modernizations, and I realized that although I might be fine with struggling through the Elizabethan English myself, and it may have significant literary value, I wanted a version I could recommend to my friends and family. Most of them would never dream of using a King James bible, not even the NKJV, or reading Shakespeare. I also wanted to be able to take this back to my Sunday School class, and say, "hey, look what I found?" I might even be interested in leading some classes on it once I've gone through it myself, but I don't think any of that crowd would be interested if I was going to use the original version.
Besides the obvious advantages of the modernized English, this edition is also attractively bound (for a paperback) with nice readable fonts, illustrations, and annotations. Mine also came with an audio CD that has excerpts from the book, but I wouldn't buy it just because of that. I wasn't that impressed with the CD. There are other modern English editions. I saw several of them at a Christian bookstore the other day. I didn't see anything about them that seemed better than this edition. There are also some editions of Pilgrim's Progress that only include the first part of the book. L. Edward Hazelbaker explains that there were different editions of Pilgrim's Progress printed by John Bunyan himself. According to wikipedia, "There were eleven editions of the first part in John Bunyan's lifetime, published in successive years from 1678 to 1685 and in 1688, and there were two editions of the second part, published in 1684 and 1686." So, there has been some claim that, "Many modern translations of this Christian classic leave out significant parts or add passages not included in John Bunyan's original." But what was Bunyan's original? It is comforting to know that Hazelbaker is well aware of there being many different "originals" and did not just use one of them for creating his modernized edition.
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