John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress in Bedford gaol, and it became the most widely read book in English after the Bible. Christian flees the City of Destruction with a burden on his back and passes through the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair and the Valley of the Shadow of Death — an allegory so vivid its places entered the language as ordinary nouns.
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