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Animal Farm
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1984
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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Lord of the Flies
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Inferno
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4.03 avg rating — 201,846 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 500,782 ratings
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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4.07 avg rating — 155,261 ratings
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The Alchemist
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3.92 avg rating — 3,462,982 ratings
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Animal Farm / 1984
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4.30 avg rating — 212,429 ratings
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Aesop’s Fables
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4.05 avg rating — 128,854 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 389,475 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 405,871 ratings
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Le Petit Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,398,113 ratings
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Fables of the Reconstruction
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Perelandra (Space Trilogy, #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 58,840 ratings
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The Plague
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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3.76 avg rating — 75,618 ratings
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 380,521 ratings
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Fables
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Blindness
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The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
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4.01 avg rating — 299,826 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Phaedrus
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3.96 avg rating — 11,038 ratings
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Gulliver’s Travels
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3.59 avg rating — 295,118 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,009,705 ratings
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The Romance of the Rose
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3.62 avg rating — 2,636 ratings
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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4.13 avg rating — 44,378 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.15 avg rating — 124,787 ratings
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The Faerie Queene
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3.58 avg rating — 17,182 ratings
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The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century
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4.03 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Fables For Our Time/Further Fables For Our Time
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3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
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4.44 avg rating — 33,399 ratings
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The Complete Stories
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4.33 avg rating — 28,149 ratings
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Young Goodman Brown
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3.65 avg rating — 16,071 ratings
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Letters on Wave Mechanics
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4.31 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Meaning in the Visual Arts
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Circle of Wisdom: A Path for Life, Mind and Leadership
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A Leaf of Faith (Messengers and Thieves Book 2)
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Space Station
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City of God
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Doctor Faustus
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The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance
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The Republic
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Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
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The Book of the City of Ladies
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The Vision of Piers Plowman
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The Tao of Pooh
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The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
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Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays
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Franz Kafka's The Castle
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
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Arrival and Departure
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The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
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Mario and the Magician and Other Stories
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On the Songs of Songs 2 (On the Song of Songs, #2)
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A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
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Gender, Politics, and Allegory in the Art of Rubens
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Codex Manesse: Die Miniaturen der Grossen Heidelberger Liederhandschrift
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Flaubert's Parrot
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Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights
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Morality Play
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The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner
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Red: The Heroic Rescue (The Circle, #2)
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HereAfter, The Land of Intuit and the Quest for the Book of Destiny
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Land of Magical Thinking: A Fable
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Hawthorne: Rising of the Moon
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Divine Towels
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The Fun We've Had
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Messages from Estillyen
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Billy Tabbs & The Glorious Darrow
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Four Arms
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The Word and the Interpretation
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
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The Cave and the Rock
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Ima Pigg
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Memories of a Butterfly
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Kristian's War (The Searchers Series, #1)
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Heart of the Earth: A Fantastic Mythical Adventure of Courage and Hope, Bound by a Shared Destiny
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The Rise and Fall of Antocracy (The Antunite Chronicles #2)
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The Secret Book of Revelation: The Apocalypse of St John the Divine
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Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)
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The Frog
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Snowball's Chance
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Melting Colors
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One for the Morning Glory
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Where the Garden Begins (Messengers and Thieves #1)
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Antuna's Story (The Antunites Chronicles, #1)
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The Visual Non Visuals
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Antunites Unite (The Antunite Chronicles #3)
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Modern Poetry
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Allegory and Mirror: Tradition and Structure in Middle English Literature
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Allegorical Imagery: Some Mediaeval Books and Their Posterity
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Medieval Allegories of Jesus' Parables: An Introduction
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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War with the Newts
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Bruegel
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The Decameron
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Also: Would you rather limit contributions to allegory in literature? If so, I'll delete those that I included on allegorical paintings. Having been to a production of "Tannhäuser" just yesterday, I'm actually tempted to branch out even further, but I realize that this would open a can of worms you probably would prefer to keep tightly shut -- or would it?