The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

A moral dialogue set in Puritan England, following the life of a thoroughly wicked man from childhood to his unrepentant death. Bunyan wrote it as a companion to The Pilgrim's Progress, tracing not the road to the Celestial City but the road to destruction, depicting Badman's lying, fraud, cruelty to his godly wife, and final easy death as a frightening sign of divine abandonment. Published in 1680, it stands as one of the earliest English novels in form and the most searching Puritan analysis of how ordinary worldliness slides into damnation.

6 hrs total · 9 chapters