Excerpt from The Life of Bunyan: Author of the Pilgrim's Progress, Compiled From His Own Writings, and From Other Authentic Sources

Because Bunyan's Grace Abounding is so complete a revelation of the mind of Puritanism, because it is so perfect an example of the subjective autobiography, because of its interest as a narration of a soul-experience, and finally because it furnishes such an illuminating commentary upon Pilgrim's Progress, it cannot well be ignored by any student of the literature of the seventeenth century. Despite the undeniable interest and value of the book, however, no cheap and at the same time reliable text has hitherto been available. In the belief that other teachers of English would welcome such a text, but chiefly because the editor has felt the need of one in his own university teaching, he has prepared this edition. The text, used by permission of the publishers, is that of the Clarendon Press. No notes have been admitted, because in so simple and straightforward a narrative none seemed necessary. Some questions for the study of the book have, however, been included, but merely by way of suggestion. They are not intended to be even measurably complete, but are meant only to suggest a method of approach. Whether the book be read for its interest as an historical document, as a literary classic, or for its purely human interest, it will repay a thorough and reverent study.

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