Excerpt from John Bunyan's Dream Story: The Pilgrim's Progress Retold for Children and Adapted to School Reading But suppose we divest the story of some of those qualities which may be described as Old-fashioned and out of date - suppose that, retaining its essential peculiarities of style and diction, we repeat it without apparent didactic intent, simply as a pleasing narra tive and John Bunyan's dream story becomes a delightful fairy tale, poetic in form and surpassingly interesting.