The Life and Death of Mr. Badman: Presented to the World in a Familiar Dialogue between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive Oxford English Texts

Author	John Bunyan
ISBN	9780198127420
Publisher	Oxford University Press, Usa
Manufacturer	Oxford University Press, Usa

The Life and Death of Mr. Badman is a book by John Bunyan that tells the story of Badman, a greedy, lustful, and exploitative shopkeeper in a small town in the late 17th century. The book is based on the only authentic extant first edition of 1680, and this new edition includes a full introduction and commentary.

This is the first critical edition of Bunyan's dark and vigorous delineation of provincial vice, a book he described as "the Life and Death of the Ungodly and their travel from this world to Hell." First published in 1680, his tale of the greedy, lustful, and exploitative shopkeeper Badman is a vivid account of small-town life in the late 17th century, providing in its realism a precursor to the novel while embodying in its moral abstraction the values and mythology of 17th-century Puritan society. Based on the only authentic extant first edition of 1680, this new edition includes a full introduction and commentary.