Pilgrim's Progress

Natalie asked everyone to take a look The Pilgrim's Progress to get a feel for the language and story -

Here's the Wikipedia link for a summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim's_Progress

and here you can take a look at the actual text, in one of several different formats: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bunyan/pilgrim.html



On the left is a fairly typical type of illustration. You could also envision the allegorical tale of a Christian (called 'Christian', creatively enough) journeying through the world in this way:

Like I always say: If there aren't swords, why bother?