Allegory Books

Atalantis Major

Daniel Defoe

Atalantis Major is a thinly veiled allegory describing the November 1710 election of the representative Scottish peers. The circumstances which surrounded this election were produced by the outcome of..

The Story of a Dewdrop

John R. Macduff

The Story of a Dewdrop is a short allegory written by John Ross Macduff, a Scottish divine and a prolific author of religious essay who had published many practical and devotional works which attained..

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

A kindly thing it is to have compassion of the afflicted and albeit it well beseemeth every one, yet of those is it more particularly required who have erst had need of comfort and have found it in an..

The Shepherd of the Hills

Harold Bell Wright

By his dress, the man was from the world beyond the ridges, and his carefully tailored clothing looked strangely out of place in the mountain wilderness. His form stooped a little in the shoulders, pe..

The Cream of the Jest - A comedy of evasions

James Branch Cabell

Hereinafter you have Kennaston’s own explanation. I do not know but that in hunting down one enigma it raises a bevy; but it, at worst, tells from his standpoint honestly how this change came about. Y..