"This work is totally unabridged with nothing left out or shortened. However, where I felt that an amplification might aid in spiritual understanding ... I have taken that liberty"--Preface.
After Christian reads a book telling him that the city in which he and his family dwells, will be set ablaze, he takes the advice of the Evangelist, and undertakes a dangerous pilgrimage to the Heavenly City through castles, giants, dragons, angels and other temptations, driven on only by the hope and promise of eternal joy in heaven.