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Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity Fair, Doubting Castle, the Wicket Gate, as well as those who tempt him from his path (e.g., Talkative, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, the Giant Despair). But in the end he reaches Beulah Land, where he awaits the crossing of the river of death and his entry into the heavenly city. Pilgrim's Progress was enormously influential not only as a best-selling inspirational tract in the late 17th century, but as an ancestor of the 18th-century English novel, and many of its themes and ideas have entered permanently into Western culture.
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In the fourth book of the Well World series, Mavra Chang and her computer companion, Obie, are charged with finding the missing Nathan Brazil. He is the only man who can save the Well World from a weapon whose use will have disastrous effects on the universe, but Nathan Brazil isn't a man anymore...
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An anthology of science fiction short stories, grouped by decade from the late 1800s to the present. Includes chapter openers providing historical and social context, headnotes about the authors, and writing and discussion questions.
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