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The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
work by Bunyan
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discussed in biography
- In John Bunyan: Later life and works of John Bunyan
His The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680) is more like a realistic novel than an allegory in its portrait of the unrelievedly evil and unrepentant tradesman Mr. Badman. The book gives an insight into the problems of money and marriage when the Puritans were…
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place in English literature
- In English literature: Writings of the Nonconformists
…stature, are especially worth reading: The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), which, with graphic local detail, remorselessly tracks the sinful temptations of everyday life, and The Holy War (1682), a grandiose attempt at religious mythmaking interlaced with contemporary political allusions.
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