The Pilgrim's Progress name "The Similitude of a Dream", the progressive rock band of Neal Morse released a concept album based on "The Pilgrim's Progress" in November 2016. A number of illustrations created by Henry Melville appear in the Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Books under the editorship of Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Each is accompanied by a poem, either by Bernard Barton or by Miss Landon herself. These plates are as follows: Charles Dickens' book "Oliver Twist" (1838) is subtitled 'The Parish Boy's Progress'. The title of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–8 novel "Vanity Fair" alludes to the location in Bunyan's work. Mark Twain gave
Boy (novel) 3's "Sunday Play" on March 16, 1996. "The New York Times", in Hanley's "Obituary", described "Boy" as "Mr. Hanley's partly autobiographical novel". However, Hanley did not run away to sea when he was thirteen but worked as a clerk for four years, before signing on as an ordinary seaman on the SS Nitonian, when he was seventeen. According to Hanley's son Liam, his father laughed at the suggestion that "Boy" was autobiographical. Hanley refers to "Boy", though not naming it, in "a short reminiscence entitled 'Oddfish', " in his collection of essays and sketches "Don Quixote Drowned" (1953). In this