Just as Oliver Cromwell aimed to bring about the kingdom of God on earth and founded the British Empire, so Bunyan wanted the millennium and got the novel.

Books · 1988

Just as Oliver Cromwell aimed to bring about the kingdom of God on earth and founded the British Empire, so Bunyan wanted the millennium and got the novel.

— Christopher Hill ‧ A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church, 1628 - 1688