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u/epistleofdude · 3 pointsr/Reformed

Preliminaries

  1. I think you have a plethora of options when it comes to The Pilgrim's Progress. Many of them are free too!

  2. Also, I want to say I don't necessarily think all middle schoolers need a modernized version because some or many middle schoolers are more than capable of understanding the main story in its original language. At most, it'd be like reading Shakespeare, but I think Bunyan is even easier to grasp than Shakespeare.

    Modernized versions

  3. Grace Gems has a modernized version of The Pilgrim's Progress which you can download for free (here). It's available in epub, mobi, and pdf formats. And it's even available in audio format.

  4. There are modernized versions of The Pilgrim's Progress you can purchase on Amazon. A couple of them are only 99 cents for Kindle.

  5. If you want a book version, The Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English has good reviews.

    "Original" versions

    (I used original in scare quotes because Bunyan first published his book in the late 1600s and so the original text would be the late 1600s text, but it's predominantly only scholars who read the original late 1600s text. Such as Roger Sharrock's Oxford University Press edition.)

  6. CCEL has a free edition of the original in multiple formats too.

  7. Oxford World's Classics and Penguin Classics both have good cheap paperback editions of The Pilgrim's Progress.

  8. Desiring God (John Piper's ministry) has made the first part (unfortunately not the second part as far as I know) of The Pilgrim's Progress available for free to download in epub, mobi, and pdf formats (here). It's also available to purchase as a regular book. By the way, I own the hardback book version and it's beautiful as well as beautifully illustrated. However, Desiring God's version is not exactly modernized, it retains Bunyan's English, but it does clean it up a bit and so it is "easier" to read while retaining the original as much as possible.

  9. Another good print edition of The Pilgrim's Progress is from the Banner of Truth. The Banner of Truth was founded by Iain Murray, who himself has written many wonderful Christian biographies that are worth reading, with Martyn Lloyd-Jones's support.

  10. My personal favorite edition is the hardcover smyth-sewn The Pilgrim's Progress: The 1891 edition with 170 Illustrations.

    TL;DR

    If I were you, I think I'd probably pick Desiring God's version. You can take a look at this version by downloading it for free above and see what you think. However, I think it'd be worth buying Desiring God's hardcopy version of The Pilgrim's Progress because it's a beautiful book with beautiful artwork which might be attractive to your middle schooler too. In any case, your middle schooler is in for a delightful read because it's a great story.
u/mcshaner1 · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

I got a nicely illustrated one with slightly updated language and commentary here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1433506998/

It didn't have the second part (with the journey of Christian's family), so I got this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002S5265M

I enjoyed both.