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The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as parable)
avg rating 3.59 — 295,090 ratings — published 1947
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as parable)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,781,766 ratings — published 1988
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as parable)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,628,072 ratings — published 1943
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as parable)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,851,096 ratings — published 1945
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as parable)
avg rating 3.86 — 281,019 ratings — published 1970
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as parable)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,386,612 ratings — published 1952
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as parable)
avg rating 4.09 — 967,188 ratings — published 1843
Who Moved My Cheese? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as parable)
avg rating 3.87 — 523,361 ratings — published 1998
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as parable)
avg rating 4.09 — 923,260 ratings — published 1922
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as parable)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,268,389 ratings — published 1964
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as parable)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,499 ratings — published 2007
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as parable)
avg rating 4.18 — 302,751 ratings — published 1993
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as parable)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,580,369 ratings — published 1915
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as parable)
avg rating 4.08 — 166,025 ratings — published 1678
Theo of Golden (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.41 — 713,085 ratings — published 2023
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.83 — 707,248 ratings — published 1886
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.06 — 529,767 ratings — published 2021
The Celestine Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.74 — 126,137 ratings — published 1993
The Man Who Planted Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,354 ratings — published 1953
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,898 ratings — published 1886
Hector and the Search for Happiness (Audio CD)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.48 — 17,944 ratings — published 2002
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.35 — 62,409 ratings — published 1955
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,029,078 ratings — published 1818
The Velveteen Rabbit (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.31 — 277,989 ratings — published 1922
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.58 — 638,657 ratings — published 1851
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.93 — 427,396 ratings — published 1925
The Greatest Salesman in the World (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.21 — 70,091 ratings — published 1968
Bartleby the Scrivener (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,708 ratings — published 1853
The Richest Man in Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 4.23 — 255,780 ratings — published 1926
Fish: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,665 ratings — published 1996
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parable)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,015,665 ratings — published 1963
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,334,163 ratings — published 1954
The Prince and the Pauper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.87 — 127,654 ratings — published 1881
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.07 — 185,474 ratings — published 1883
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.28 — 726,019 ratings — published 1956
Šuns archipelagas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,850 ratings — published 2018
The Archer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.64 — 23,928 ratings — published 2003
The Ardent Swarm (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,745 ratings — published 2017
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.55 — 253,589 ratings — published 2019
The Parable of the Homemade Millionaire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.16 — 38 ratings — published
The Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.64 — 71,025 ratings — published 1987
The Parade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.65 — 9,516 ratings — published 2019
The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.26 — 611 ratings — published 2015
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,294 ratings — published 2007
The Ant and the Elephant: Leadership for the Self: A Parable and 5-Step Action Plan to Transform Workplace Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,116 ratings — published 2004
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.25 — 850,340 ratings — published 1990
Three Questions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,248 ratings — published 1885
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parable)
avg rating 4.05 — 131,307 ratings — published -560
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.
(Leoparden brechen in den Tempel ein und saufen die Opferkrüge leer; das wiederholt sich immer wieder; schließlich kann man es vorausberechnen, und es wird ein Teil der Zeremonie.)”
― Parables and Paradoxes
(Leoparden brechen in den Tempel ein und saufen die Opferkrüge leer; das wiederholt sich immer wieder; schließlich kann man es vorausberechnen, und es wird ein Teil der Zeremonie.)”
― Parables and Paradoxes
