Authors of these allegorical books Quiz by Flick

Can you name the authors of these allegorical books?

created by Flick

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An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
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Book	Author
Moby Dick
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Of Mice and Men
Inferno
The Pilgrim's Progress
A Christmas Carol
The Plague
Lord of the Flies
His Dark Materials

Book	Author
Black Beauty
The Chronicles of Narnia
Gulliver's Travels
Fables
Watership Down
The Alchemist
Animal Farm
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Life of Pi

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Allegorical Authors Quiz

by Flick

Created Nov 12, 2010 in Literature
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	CrazyCat:	Nov 12th, 2010 at 14:54 GMT		7 points
	I really like the idea of this quiz, but it might be more interesting if you did something with the concept of allegories. Maybe the clues could be short descriptions of the allegories instead of just the names of the authors?

	Pit_trout:	Nov 12th, 2010 at 15:02 GMT		2 points
	Yes — with just the authors, the dividing line of which books are allegorical is just way too vauge/subjective, especially since usually if one of an author's books tends in that direction, others will too. (e.g. Bach's "Illusions: adventures of a reluctant messiah" is definitely also allegorical, Irving's "World according to Garp" arguably so, and lots of books by Golding and Steinbeck). With a description of that allegory, it'd both be a meatier quiz, and wouldn't suffer from this ambiguity.

	Flick:	Nov 12th, 2010 at 16:03 GMT		1 point
	@CrazyCat: I think that's a really good idea for a future quiz :) @Pit_trout: I did add a whole raft of alternative suggestions especially for C.S. Lewis obviously, but a lot of the answers I admit were based on their most famous allegories. I have swapped the quiz around to remove this problem, but as already been mentioned I kinda like the description angle. Thanx both for the great feedback.

	Flick:	Nov 13th, 2010 at 13:21 GMT		2 points
	Sarahbelle thanx for the pick

	twomoons:	Nov 14th, 2010 at 00:55 GMT		2 points
	Thank you for not putting The Lord of the Rings in here. A little part of me would have died if you had done that.

	Sarahbelle:	Nov 25th, 2010 at 06:49 GMT		3 points
	@Flick - Thanks for the great quiz!

	hcif:	May 22nd, 2013 at 01:40 GMT		3 points
	It never crossed my mind that "Fables" could refer to anything other than the Bill Willingham comic.

	suzannebark:	Jun 12th, 2013 at 01:14 GMT		1 point
	Two things: for the life of me, I cannot figure out what the allegorical meaning behind The Chronicles of Narnia are (potentially because I read them eight years ago), and also, am I the only one who wishes that Sporcle would only accept Dante's full name, so then I could feel really smart typing it in? All that AP Euro gets to my brain....