Found 4,337 results for "allegory"
The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London
I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit.
Ben Hur
by Lew Wallace
The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a l...
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
alone to the jewelry store where he worked as a silverware engraver. In the late afternoon the friends would meet again.
Washington Square
by Henry James
DURING A portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during the latter part of it, there flo...
L' Orlando furioso
by Lodovico Ariosto
I SING of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds-all from the time when the Moor...
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Omar Khayyam
OMAR KHAYYAM spent most of his life in Nishapur, and part of it probably in Merv.
Soul on ice
by Eldridge Cleaver, E. Cleaver
Nineteen fifty-four, when I was eighteen years old, is held to be a crucial turning point in the history of the Afro-Ame...
Godfrey of Bulloigne
by Torquato Tasso, Marzio Pieri
ARMS, and the chief I sing, whose righteous hands
Voice in the Wind
by Francine Rivers
The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like the thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in st...
Illusions
by Richard Bach
1. There was a Master come unto the earth, born in the holy land of Indiana, raised in the mystical hills east of Fort w...
Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story
by Sir Max Beerbohm
THAT old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting ther...
Till We Have Faces
by C.S. Lewis
I AM old now and have not much to fear from the anger of gods.
The Thief of Always
by Clive Barker
THE GREAT gray beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
