Robert Lawson in this book performs a great service for a great and beloved book. Though Bunyan’s PILGRIM’S PROGRESS has appeared in innumerable editions during the 260 years it has been a household word, it had become lost to modern readers by the length and wordiness of the original. Few knew what a moving, adventurous and exciting tale it really is.

Mr. Lawson now gives it back to modern readers young and old with his beautiful and lively picture-accompaniment to a lovely retelling of the text. Though reduced to less than one-fifth of the original length, it retains every important character and episode of the great tale.

For the many children who, finding Bunyan 's original wordiness a veritable Slough of Despond, have, like Pliable, given up and gone home, this volume ought to prove a pleasanter way of becoming acquainted with one of the most widely read stories ever written.

From the dust jacket