Written by the author in whose hands a pious tract is transformed into a work of imaginative literature whose influence, both indirectly on the English consciousness and directly on the literature that followed, has been immeasurable.

Composed and published while the author (1628-1688) was in prison for his religious principles, this work presents a spiritual autobiography. It was written in an age when religious radicalism was regarded as socially subversive, and provides an account of his inner life: his long struggle with and eventual triumph over doubt and despair.

Studies the beliefs of radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. This title offers a portrait of the effusion of revolutionary beliefs, including the relations between rich and poor, the part played by wandering men, and the outbursts of sexual freedom.

Part I of The Pilgrim's Progress was published in 1678 and Part II in 1684. This title provides a guide to the language, allusions and historical reference of this text. It includes twenty essays spanning two hundred years of thinking about the book along with a chronology and bibliography.

A classic work on British clockmaking, considered one of the best accounts of the development of the main types of clocks since the middle of the 17th century.

Taking English culture as its representative sample, this book asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, it narrates its prehistory along with that of its essential component, domesticity.

A comprehensive history of modern literary discussion of the Bible and the idea of the Bible as literature.

The extraordinary story of the Bible in England from approximately the fourth century, and its later translation into English in Britain and America up to the 21st century. It charts the profound impact successive versions of the Bible have had on the people and communities that read them.

ENGLISH SEA ROVERS IN THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CARIBBEAN.

The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary Fussell's volume about the First World War. It explores the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing on the various literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalised and mythologized. It is also about the literary dimensions of the experience itself.

The words of John Bunyan made more understandable for children.