Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton: “a glance was enough to remind me of Renan's "Vie de Jesus." It has the same strange method of the reverent sceptic.”
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey: “That the mellifluous author of the Vie de Jesus should have determined to end his days in the depths of Africa”
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “when reading Renan's "Vie de Jésus."”
The Comedians by Graham Greene: “"...several of Gaboriau's romans policiers, Renan's Vie de Jésus, and rather surprisingly among its companions Marx's Das Kapital..." — described on Brown's family library shelves.”
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham: “Philip thanked him and, taking the book, looked at the title. It was Renan's Vie de Jesus.”