Category
page 1Parables
Tower of Babel
biblical pericope about hubris and the origin of languages
parable
thumb|The Return of the Prodigal Son (Rembrandt)|The Return of the Prodigal Son, by [[Rembrandt, 1660s]]
Pan's Labyrinth
2006 film by Guillermo del Toro
The Green Knight
2021 film by David Lowery
blind men and an elephant
parable from the ancient Indian subcontinent, in which several blind men feel and try to conceptualize an elephant
parable of the broken window
parable by French economist Frédéric Bastiat
Holy Wood
2000 studio album by Marilyn Manson
The Grand Inquisitor
a story embedded inside The Brothers Karamazov by F. Dostoevsky
Inherit the Wind
1960 film by Stanley Kramer
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
short story by Leo Tolstoy
Before the Law
1915 short story by Franz Kafka
White Dog
1982 film by Samuel Fuller
What Men Live By
short story by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1940 novel by Carson McCullers
The Celestine Prophecy
spiritual novel by James Redfield
The Richest Man in Babylon
1926 parable
God Sees the Truth, but Waits
short story by Leo Tolstoy
The Three Hermits
short story by Leo Tolstoy
The Three Questions
short story by Leo Tolstoy
Hercules at the crossroads
ancient Greek anecdote parable attributed to Prodicus and known from Xenophon, concerning the young Heracles/Hercules who is offered a choice between Vice and Virtue
On Parables
short story fragment by Franz Kafka, published posthumously
The Truth about Sancho Panza
short story by Franz Kafka
The Marble Faun
novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wisdom of Children
short story by Leo Tolstoy
The Minister's Black Veil
short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Trees
single by Rush
The Grain
short story by Leo Tolstoy
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
2005 short story by Nick Bostrom
Work, Death, and Sickness
short story by Leo Tolstoy