Alexis Sorbas
Kazantzakis' novels included "Zorba the Greek" (published 1946 as "Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas"), "Christ Recrucified" (1948), "Captain Michalis" (1950, translated Freedom or Death), and "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1955). He also wrote plays, travel books, memoirs and philosophical essays such as "The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises". His fame spread in the English-speaking world due to cinematic adaptations of "Zorba the Greek" (1964) and "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988).