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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 494 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,419,659 ratings — published 1945
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.07 — 155,779 ratings — published 1678
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 166 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,089,548 ratings — published 1950
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,144,006 ratings — published 1954
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,476,558 ratings — published 1988
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,736,737 ratings — published 2001
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,407,814 ratings — published 1943
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 100 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.05 — 593,371 ratings — published 1955
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.34 — 59,823 ratings — published 1955
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 500,957 ratings — published 1952
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
by (shelved 88 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.98 — 476,544 ratings — published 1951
The Great Divorce (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.32 — 177,575 ratings — published 1946
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
by (shelved 87 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.91 — 385,173 ratings — published 1954
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
by (shelved 85 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.01 — 300,557 ratings — published 1956
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 76 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.95 — 325,157 ratings — published 1953
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.09 — 501,471 ratings — published 1972
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 69 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 698,761 ratings — published 1956
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.27 — 506,139 ratings — published 1942
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 269,086 ratings — published 1970
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,367,292 ratings — published 1915
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,304,106 ratings — published 1949
The Pilgrim's Regress (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,650 ratings — published 1933
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.93 — 104,702 ratings — published 1938
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 202,430 ratings — published 1320
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 78,463 ratings — published 1956
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,281,301 ratings — published 1952
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.83 — 45,277 ratings — published 1908
The Phantom Tollbooth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.20 — 303,571 ratings — published 1961
Beatrice and Virgil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.18 — 21,803 ratings — published 2010
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.84 — 685,875 ratings — published 2007
Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.01 — 59,010 ratings — published 1943
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,756,905 ratings — published 1953
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.18 — 329,686 ratings — published 1995
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.61 — 455,664 ratings — published 1953
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,218,307 ratings — published 1964
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.81 — 76,306 ratings — published 1884
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,756,752 ratings — published 1993
That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,007 ratings — published 1945
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 119,173 ratings — published 2015
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 407,917 ratings — published 1967
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.56 — 607,319 ratings — published 1851
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.59 — 295,632 ratings — published 1726
Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.18 — 36,710 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom's Dawn (Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,835 ratings — published 2001
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.02 — 305,318 ratings — published 1947
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,601,629 ratings — published 1995
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.43 — 614,555 ratings — published 1952
White: The Great Pursuit (The Circle, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 32,850 ratings — published 2003
Heartless (Tales of Goldstone Wood, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as allegory)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,587 ratings — published 2010
Red: The Heroic Rescue (The Circle, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as allegory)
avg rating 4.28 — 29,586 ratings — published 2004
“Saint Belfort’s Wood by Stewart Stafford
As I rambled through Saint Belfort’s Wood,
The Entrepreneurial Skag Lepus accosted me,
“I can get you hopped-up whether you want it or not,” he boasted,
Gesturing to a commune of defrocked Praying Mantises nearby.
They stood transfixed like Pointer dogs,
As they tried cleaning their antennae,
Failing miserably in the attempt,
Their eyes swirling cascades of hopelessness.
“You talk too much for a rabbit,” I replied,
My eyes moving over his tweed waistcoat,
“I’m a hare, actually,” he said, taking umbrage,
“Then you, sir, are a follicular f-f-falsity!” I shouted.
I turned on my heel and walked away,
“Don’t look a gift hare in the mouth!” he called after me,
“I have and only see two buck teeth!” I responded,
The hare huffed and hopped away to find another hophead.
© 2021, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
As I rambled through Saint Belfort’s Wood,
The Entrepreneurial Skag Lepus accosted me,
“I can get you hopped-up whether you want it or not,” he boasted,
Gesturing to a commune of defrocked Praying Mantises nearby.
They stood transfixed like Pointer dogs,
As they tried cleaning their antennae,
Failing miserably in the attempt,
Their eyes swirling cascades of hopelessness.
“You talk too much for a rabbit,” I replied,
My eyes moving over his tweed waistcoat,
“I’m a hare, actually,” he said, taking umbrage,
“Then you, sir, are a follicular f-f-falsity!” I shouted.
I turned on my heel and walked away,
“Don’t look a gift hare in the mouth!” he called after me,
“I have and only see two buck teeth!” I responded,
The hare huffed and hopped away to find another hophead.
© 2021, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“What does Éloa mean?”
He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name of an angel.”
Penelope tilted her head, thinking. “I’ve never heard of him.”
“You wouldn’t have.”
“Was he a fallen angel?”
“She was, yes.” He hesitated, not wanting to tell her the story, but unable to stop himself. “Lucifer tricked her into falling from heaven.”
“Tricked her how?”
He met her gaze. “She fell in love with him.”
Penelope’s eyes widened. “Did he love her?”
Like an addict loves his addiction. “The only way he knew how.”
She shook her head. “How could he trick her?”
“He never told her his name.”
― A Rogue by Any Other Name
He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name of an angel.”
Penelope tilted her head, thinking. “I’ve never heard of him.”
“You wouldn’t have.”
“Was he a fallen angel?”
“She was, yes.” He hesitated, not wanting to tell her the story, but unable to stop himself. “Lucifer tricked her into falling from heaven.”
“Tricked her how?”
He met her gaze. “She fell in love with him.”
Penelope’s eyes widened. “Did he love her?”
Like an addict loves his addiction. “The only way he knew how.”
She shook her head. “How could he trick her?”
“He never told her his name.”
― A Rogue by Any Other Name
