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
Racism in the work of Charles Dickens next 179 references to him. In his later novel "Our Mutual Friend", he created the character of Riah (meaning "friend" in Hebrew), whose goodness, Vallely writes, is almost as complete as Fagin's evil. Riah says in the novel: "Men say, 'This is a bad Greek, but there are good Greeks. This is a bad Turk, but there are good Turks.' Not so with the Jews ... they take the worst of us as samples of the best ..." Davis sent Dickens a copy of the Hebrew bible in gratitude. Dickens not only toned down Fagin's Jewishness in revised editions of