John Bunyan's The Life and Death of Mr. Badman: Journey to Hell (1680) presents the tale of a seventeenth century avaricious and manipulative storekeeper, Mr. Badman. Presented in the form of a proverbial discourse between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive, it spotlights the dilemmas of wealth and matrimony at the time of the Puritans' reconciliation.