allegories

When overweight Billy Halleck accidentally hits a gypsy woman as she is crossing the street, he senses a curse upon him and begins to lose weight with horrifying results.

In the Great Field, bounded on three sides by a broad bend in a river, on the other side by wilderness, there are many tents, and inside those tents are people hoping for the promise of great days in the future. However, with the arrival of more people setting up camp in the lush pastures, resources becomes scarce, emotions run high, and change threatens the delectate balance of the Great Field.

A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

Illustrates man's struggle against bureaucracy through the story of K, a land-surveyor who is obsessed with reaching the castle.

An illustrated translation of Renaissance poet Dante Alighieri's story of a man who makes his way through the torment of Hell in search of Paradise.

A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale, Moby Dick.

Joseph K. is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest of his life fighting a charge against him about which he can get no information.

A former golden boy loses his leg and goes to recuperate on a speedy backstreet in Spokane, Washington. There he finds himself surrounded by "losers".