allegories

Collects Jose Saramago's "Blindness," which follows the events after a city is struck with an epidemic of blindness that allows people to see only white, and "Seeing," which continues the story after four years when a mysterious turnout of blank ballots appear on election day, which prompts a state of emergency.

Translates the fourteenth-century work, in which ten young Florentine noblemen and women tell one hundred stories while fleeing the Black Death in 1348.

Presents an English translation of the Russian novel written at the height of Stalin's regime, in which Satan, in the guise of a man named Woland, arrives in Moscow and begins to wreak havoc in the literary community, honing in on his real target, an author called The Master, who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate.

When a reporter and a prayerful pastor begin to compare notes on the town of Ashton, they find themselves fighting a New Age plot to subjugate the townspeople, and eventually the entire human race.

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

Selected Renaissance tapestries and armor from Spain.

When a mysterious bird arrives in Godhanger Wood to protect the frightened animals from the cruel gamekeeper, this Christ-figure deliberately sacrifices himself to save them from death.

The story of Pilgrim's Progress as told in the British TV series Dangerous Journey. A man named Christian escapes from the City of Destruction and begins an allegorical jouney to the next World.

"In The Lion and the Mouse, Aesop and his troupe teach their audience that even the toughest creatures sometimes need a helping hand, and that help may come from unexpected places."--Provided by publisher.