Which famous books in literature shows allegory or examples of it??

Answer 1

Much of the Bible would be considered allegory.

http://www.godshew.org/Allegory.htm
http://www.keeneonline.com/other/allegory.htm (which also lists other allegorical references)

Answer 2

Watership Down
The Republic (Allegory of the Cave)
The Little Prince
Gulliver's Travels
Pilgrim's Progress
Everyman
Bhagavad Gita

Answer 3

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is an allegory.
Really most of the stuff that C.S. Lewis wrote would be considered an allegory.
The Faire Queen
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm

Answer 4

Pure allegory, in literature, is "the representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events." [1] The best known example in English literature are John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

The main character, Christian, is making his way to the Celestial City. Places he passes along the way have names that indicate the abstract ideas they represent; for example, the Slough of Despond, Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity Fair, House Beautiful, Delectable Mountains, and the Land of Beulah (or rest). Characters he encounters are Evangelist (who sets him on his way), Mr. Worldly Wiseman, Beelzebub (literally, "Lord of the Flies," an archdevil), the maidens of the House Beautiful (for example, Discretion, Prudence, Piety, Charity), Apollyon (a dragon, literally, "Destroyer," Lord of the City of Destruction), the Giant Despair, the young lad Ignorance, Wanton (a temptress), and the companions Faithful and Hopeful.

A forerunner of Pilgrim's Progress was the medieval morality play, simply called Everyman. In it the main character, named Everyman, is summoned on a journey by the figure Death. His friends Fellowship, Kindred, Goods, and Knowledge refuse to go with him. The only one who will go is a friend he has neglected in the past. His name is Good Deeds.

Perhaps the greatest of English allegories is The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser. In it the Redcrosse Knight (St. George, or England) is devoted to the service of Gloriana, or the Faerie Queen (literally, Queen Elizabeth). Other characters are Duessa (or Falsehood), Una (the True Church), Britomart (a female knight, Chastity) and her beloved Artegal (or Justice tempered with Mercy), Sansfoy, Sansjoys, and Sansloy ( the knights who fight the Redcrosse Knight, literally Faithless, Joyless, and Lawless).

These are pure allegories. However, any work can be given an allegorical reading (or interpretation) if characters and places are taken to stand for abstract qualities or ideas rather than well-rounded human beings. For instance, an allegorical reading of Death of a Salesman might see Willie Loman as representing the American Dream, his boss as Captialism, his wife Linda as simple "family values," his good-looking son Biff as Popularity, his hard-working son Happy as Duty or Dependability, and the prostitute as Pleasure or Escape. Most readers would see the main characters as somewhat more well-rounded than that, but minor characters, such as his boss and the prostitute, are more likely "flat" and, hence, representative of single values.

One can even give an allegorical reading to history -- and the news media often do, at least in subtle ways. Father Geo H W Bush may be seen as Subtle Deception (called "Intelligence," secretive but wimpish) and his son Geo "Dubya" Bush as Dumb Deception (outwardly "macho" but inwardly fearful and dependent on Daddy). Bill Clinton, is Sheer Egotism, spurred on by Ambition (Hillary) but distracted by Pleasure (Monica and others). Al Gore has been cast as High Ideals (very serious but arrogant and "uppity"); John Kerry was cast as False Ideals (bookish and distant like Gore but also deceptive and indecisive). Wonder who the next main characters will be in this modern drama of the American Everyman. Will it be John McCain (age and experience, the Warrior of Yesterday) or Barack Obama (youth and candor, the Bright Knight of Tomorrow)? Or Ambition again, with Egotism held in check at her side, or behind closed doors? Or even an older, wiser High Ideals? That's the way it's shaping up now, but there are still hills to climb (problems), rivers to cross (primaries), and Wiley Coyotes to deal with (political commentators). We shall see.

Modern literature is said to avoid pure allegory, but the modern press knows how appealing allegory can be, how it is demanded by the American imagination, and how much advertising it sells to that monster President Eisenhow called the Military/Industrial Complex. Allegory is not merely litrerary.