In plain yet powerful and moving language. Bunyan tells the story of Christian's struggle to attain salvation and the Gates of Heaven. He must pass through the Slough of Despond, ward off the temptations of Vanity Fair and fight the monstrous Apollyon...

In Part 2, his wife and children follow the same path, helped and protected by Great-heart, until for them too 'the trumpets sound on the other side'.

Edward de Souza reads with clarity and an entertaining range of tone to give full credit to Bunyan's lively and dramatic prose replete with the poetry of the King James Bible.