August Books 2) The Pilgrim's Regress

[nwhyte]

2) The Pilgrim's Regress, by C.S. Lewis

This book is overtly attempting to recast its great model in terms suitable for an intellectual Anglican of the 1920s or 1930s. Lewis's metaphors are even less subtle than Bunyan's (at one point he supplies footnotes so that we can be sure which philosophers he is parodying). He has more of a sense of humour

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[schizmatic]

Regress simply feels way, way too dated to really get into. It's a decent answer to issues that would have been troubling to an Oxbridge don of the 1920's and 30's, but I think that Bunyan's original is superior--by not larding it full of references to seventeenth-century controversies (which were at least as important to contemporaries as those issues CSL addresses were to CSL's time), he gave it a much longer staying power.