Allegorical novels

1988 novel by Paulo Coelho

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the

Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that lead to a descent into savagery. The novel's themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos.

novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1925 novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

1972 novel by Richard Adams

novel by Karel Čapek

work by Francesco Colonna

1867 novel by Charles De Coster

1922 children's novel by Janusz Korczak

romance novel by Saddam Hussein

1748 novel by Denis Diderot

1973 novel by Otar Chiladze

novel by Italo Calvino

novella by the Swiss writer Jeremias Gotthelf written in 1842

book by Mikha'il Na'ima

novel by Romain Gary

Argenis is a book by John Barclay. It is a work of historical allegory which tells the story of the religious conflict in France under Henry III of France and Henry IV of France, and also touches on more contemporary English events, such as the Overbury scandal. The tendency is royalist, anti-aristocratic; it is told from the angle of a king who reduces the landed aristocrats' power in the interest of the "country", the interest of which is identified with that of the king.

2001 novel by Saddam Hussein

1952 novel by René Daumal