The most popular allegory books

An allegory tells one story to speak about another. Animals on a farm, a journey through strange lands or a plague in a city stand for politics, faith or the human condition. You can enjoy the surface and then think about what lies beneath.

Poetics of Personification

James J. Paxson

2009 · 2011 edition

FOE.

J. M. Coetzee

1986 · 1987 edition

160 pages

Allegories of America

Frederick M. Dolan

Published 2018

248 pages

The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature

George Economou

Published 1972

227 pages

Shakespeare's Forgotten Allegory Vice, Virtue, and Spoilt Children

Julian Real

2023 · 2024 edition

266 pages

Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Published 1974

478 pages

Varieties of Parable

Macneice

Published 1965

166 pages

Animal Allegories in T'Ang China

Madeline K. Spring

Published 1993

174 pages

The Prose Fiction Stage Adaptation As Social Allegory In Contemporary British Drama

Mike Ingham

Published 2004

373 pages

Variations on the Imperial Theme Studies in Ceremonial Art and Collecting in the Age of Maximilian II and Rudolf II

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Published 1978

186 pages

Dramatic Allegory

Joanne Spencer Kantrowitz

Published 1974

166 pages

Allegories and Metaphors in Early Political Thought

Kevin Dooley

2018 · 2019 edition

129 pages

Dante's Journey to the Centre Some Patterns in His Allegory

Jason Rogers

1972 · 1985 edition

63 pages

Allegorising Thought on the Shakespearean Stage

Claire Guéron

Published 2023

192 pages

In Search Of 'Kynde Knowynge'

Madeleine Kasten

Published 2007

257 pages

Allegories and Metaphors in Early Political Thought From Plato to Machiavelli

Kevin L. Dooley

2018 · 2019 edition

130 pages

History and allegory in Thomas Mann's 'Doktor Faustus'

J. P. Stern

Published 1975

23 pages

The Buke Of The Howlat

Richard Holland

1823 · 2018 edition

100 pages

Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)

N. Guynn

Published 2007

230 pages

Religious Emblems and Religious Allegories

William Holmes, John Warner Barber

2006 · 2014 edition

330 pages

Image and Idea in Fifth Century Greece

E. D. Francis

1990 · 2011 edition

190 pages

A Scriptural and Allegorical Glossary to Milton's Paradise Lost

Christian Cann

1976 · 2019 edition

316 pages

(Un)saying the Other Allegory and Irony in Emmanuel Levinas's Ethical Language

Ewa Rychter