The religious novel -- Sholem Asch -- John Bunyan -- Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand -- Fyodor Dostoevski -- Shusaku Endo -- Mary Gordon -- Graham Greene -- Nikos Kazantzakis -- Selma Lagerlof -- Sinclair Lewis -- Rose Macaulay -- Alessandro Manzoni -- Francois Mauriac -- George Meredith -- Dmitry Merezhkovsky -- Kate O'Brien -- Flannery O'Connor -- Chaim Potok -- Raja Rao -- Salman Rushdie -- Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo -- Wu Chengen -- Frank Yerby.
Summary
Provides in-depth profiles of major authors whose fictional works have captured aspects of religion central to the development of the modern perspective. The selected authors were drawn from writers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western civilization and their works focus on the theme of religion, covering every major religion of the world and making it central to the plot and understanding of their narrative works.