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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,837,714 ratings — published 1945
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.08 — 165,485 ratings — published 1678
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,328,343 ratings — published 1954
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 168 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,237,345 ratings — published 1950
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,773,082 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,621,772 ratings — published 1943
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,791,446 ratings — published 2001
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.35 — 62,276 ratings — published 1955
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 99 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.06 — 631,718 ratings — published 1955
The Great Divorce (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.32 — 196,824 ratings — published 1946
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 521,997 ratings — published 1952
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.98 — 502,060 ratings — published 1951
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 87 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 407,249 ratings — published 1954
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
by (shelved 85 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.01 — 316,566 ratings — published 1956
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 75 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.96 — 342,669 ratings — published 1953
Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.17 — 38,322 ratings — published 2003
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 70 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 724,860 ratings — published 1956
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.10 — 516,353 ratings — published 1972
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.27 — 555,068 ratings — published 1942
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 280,610 ratings — published 1970
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,574,949 ratings — published 1915
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,797,567 ratings — published 1949
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 86,300 ratings — published 1956
Seed of the Defiled (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,587 ratings — published
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,008 ratings — published 1321
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.93 — 112,368 ratings — published 1938
The Pilgrim's Regress (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,180 ratings — published 1933
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.82 — 49,041 ratings — published 1908
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 314,426 ratings — published 1961
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,383,270 ratings — published 1952
Beatrice and Virgil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.18 — 22,216 ratings — published 2010
Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 63,434 ratings — published 1943
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.85 — 707,883 ratings — published 2007
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.19 — 366,837 ratings — published 1995
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,008,042 ratings — published 1963
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.61 — 478,452 ratings — published 1953
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 453,995 ratings — published 1967
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,267,154 ratings — published 1964
That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 48,629 ratings — published 1945
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 80,627 ratings — published 1884
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,913,459 ratings — published 1993
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.46 — 748,000 ratings — published 1952
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 129,053 ratings — published 2015
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.58 — 637,535 ratings — published 1851
Kingdom's Dawn (Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,119 ratings — published 2001
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 305,933 ratings — published 1726
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 919,715 ratings — published 1922
White: The Great Pursuit (The Circle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 33,596 ratings — published 2003
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 335,518 ratings — published 1947
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 180,527 ratings — published 1304
“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived, not far from the old house of his fathers. Of the rest he took some and built a tower. But his friends coming perceived at once (without troubling to climb the steps) that these stones had formerly belonged to a more ancient building. So they pushed the tower over, with no little labour, and in order to look for hidden carvings and inscriptions, or to discover whence the man's distant forefathers had obtained their building material. Some suspecting a deposit of coal under the soil began to dig for it, and forgot even the stones. They all said: 'This tower is most interesting.' But they also said (after pushing it over): 'What a muddle it is in!' And even the man's own descendants, who might have been expected to consider what he had been about, were heard to murmur: 'He is such an odd fellow! Imagine using these old stones just to build a nonsensical tower! Why did not he restore the old house? he had no sense of proportion.' But from the top of that tower the man had been able to look out upon the sea.”
― Beowulf and the Critics
― Beowulf and the Critics
“I follow suit, said the lion,
vacating his coat of arms
and movie logos; and the eagle said,
Get me off this flag.”
― The Tent
vacating his coat of arms
and movie logos; and the eagle said,
Get me off this flag.”
― The Tent
