allegories

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.

Translation of the 1847 French novel about Lisbeth Fischer, a conniving poor relation whose relationship with her beautiful cousin's sexually indiscriminate husband offers her the opportunity to exact vengeance upon the family.

Presents an allegory that describes the passengers on board a ship sailing from Mexico to Germany in 1931.

After the last person has gone from the earth, sheep take over the world, make the same mistakes as man, and eventually they too disappear.

The literal and spiritual journey of two French priests who come to the American Southwest as missionaries in the mid-1800s.

Ruth Ann Boatwright, a South Carolina bastard, tells her life with her family and the emotional and physical violence she experiences.

Recounts how the leopard got his claws and teeth and why he rules the forest with terror.