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Bunyan, John

Batson, E. Beatrice. John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1984. Literary study looking at Bunyan's moral and theological focus, as well as his appreciation of imaginative literature.

Brown, John. John Bunyan: His Life, Times and Work. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994. Edited by Robert Backhouse. Modern edition of the standard early biography, first published in 1885.

Evans, Vivienne, and Evans, Lewis. John Bunyan: His Life and Times. Dunstable: The Book Castle, 1988. Traces the events of Bunyan's life and the social, political, and religious background to the 17th century.

Frye, R. M. God, Man and Satan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. Important biographical and critical study setting Bunyan in his Puritan context.

Greaves, Richard L. John Bunyan. Appleford: Sutton Courtenay Press, 1969. A study of Bunyan's theology.

Hill, Christopher. A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church 1628-1688. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Historical biography exploring Bunyan's writings and personality, and how he was influenced by his times, as well as the significance of Pilgrim's Progress at the time and since.

Keeble, N. H., ed. John Bunyan: Conventicle and Parnassus—Tercentenary Essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Comprehensive summary of Bunyan scholarship in 12 essays concerned with Bunyan's Christian faith and his literary imagination, treating the main aspects of his life, thought, and work.

Marshall, David. Introduction to the Life and Works of John Bunyan. London: Bishopsgate, 1989. Brief, brisk outline of Bunyan's life with selections from his major works.

Newey, Vincent, ed. The Pilgrim' Progress: Critical and Historical Views. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1980.

Sharrock, Roger. John Bunyan. London: Hutchinson, 1954. Important study of Bunyan looking at his spiritual history and his place in the Puritan literary tradition.

Winslow, O. L. John Bunyan. New York and London: Macmillan, 1961. A straightforward biography.