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John Bunyan (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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Between 1656 and 1688, John Bunyan published forty-four separate works, including prose narratives and tracts, sermons, and verse; ten posthumous publications appeared in a folio edition of 1692, which the author himself had prepared for the press. A nearly complete edition, in two volumes, was printed between 1736 and 1737, another in 1767 by George Whitefield, and a six-volume Edinburgh edition in 1784. The best of Bunyan’s verse can be found in a small collection (c. 1664) containing “The Four Last Things,” “Ebal and Gerizim,” and “Prison...

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