Christian's allegorical journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
Books that mention The Pilgrim's Progress (19)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin: “Pleased with the _Pilgrim's Progress_, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.”
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: “One was Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why.”
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “I was thinking about our '_Pilgrim's Progress_'," answered Beth, who had not heard a word.”
Middlemarch by George Eliot: “She was disposed rather to accuse the intolerable narrowness and the purblind conscience of the society around her: and Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the "Pilgrim's Progress."”
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: “…it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old book-case, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History,* Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible,** stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books, equally solemn and respectable.”
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot: “But I've got 'Æsop's Fables,' and a book about Kangaroos and things, and the 'Pilgrim's Progress.”
Adam Bede by George Eliot: “Besides all this, he had read his Bible, including the apocryphal books; Poor Richard's Almanac, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, The Pilgrim's Progress, with Bunyan's Life and Holy War, a great deal of Bailey's Dictionary, Valentine and Orson, and part of a History of Babylon, which Bartle Massey had lent him.”
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: “The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, the Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound informa-…”
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens: “There had been an old copy of the Pilgrim's Progress, with strange plates, upon a shelf at home, over which she had often pored whole evenings, wondering whether it was true in every word, and where those distant countries with the curious names might be.”
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller: “I did not care especially for "The Pilgrim's Progress," which I think I did not finish”
The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings: “I have described my Pilgrim's Progress from the Slough of Despond”
Prester John by John Buchan: “The Pilgrim's Progress had been the Sabbath reading of my boyhood”
Mr. Standfast by John Buchan: “It was from the Pilgrim's Progress that I read next morning ... beside his grave.”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “Jude Mason on his childhood story-templates: '...the story of Pilgrim's Progress and the story of The Coral Island.'”
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson: “I found there _Pilgrim's Progress_, Peter Parley's _History of the United States_, Grimm's _Household Stories, Tales of a Grandfather_, a bound volume of an old English publication (I think it was called _The Mirror_), a little volume called _Familiar Science_, and somebody's _Natural Theology_,…”
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope: “I am afraid he hasn't read his Pilgrim's Progress.”
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver: “'I had also recently read The Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost'”
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler: “I had also dramatised "The Pilgrim's Progress" for a Christmas Pantomime, and made an important scene of Vanity Fair, with Mr Greatheart, Apollyon, Christiana, Mercy, and Hopeful as the principal characters.”
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Mulock Craik: “"What books have you got through?" "All you sent--Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, and the Arabian Nights.”