The Holy War

First published in 1682, The Holy War is John Bunyan's grand allegory of the human heart - the work he ranked beside The Pilgrim's Progress. It tells of Mansoul, a fair town built by the great King Shaddai, betrayed and captured by the giant Diabolus, and of the long campaign by Shaddai's son, Emmanuel, to win it back. By turns an epic of war and a tender drama of grace, it stages the whole Christian story - creation, fall, redemption, backsliding, and final deliverance - within the walls of a single besieged city. This illustrated edition presents the complete, unabridged original text with thirteen original woodcut-style illustrations, one opening each chapter, plus Bunyan's own verse preface, To the Reader. A timeless devotional classic for readers of Bunyan, Christian allegory, and Puritan literature.