Bunyan

"Bunyan" by James Anthony Froude is a 19th-century retelling of the story and life of John Bunyan, the man who penned "The Pilgrim's Progress". Froude paints a picture of Bunyan's hard life, starting with his beginnings in 1628, as a boy from a poor family during a time of big political drama in England. The book tells about Bunyan's early troublemaking ways and his fight to be good, something made harder by bad dreams and a strong sense of wrong-doing. Although he didn't get much education, his life was soaked in strong religious beliefs, which stirred up a storm inside him. This battle between doing wrong and wanting to be good leads him to become a minister, setting the scene for how he would later write his famous book.