apologue

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This reading of Louis and Claudia’s lineage allows writer Hannah Moscovitch to transform a station along the characters’ development track into an apologue about war and misery.

From Salon • May 13, 2024

As often as this apologue is repeated, I still catch myself questioning its accuracy: Does the culture not prefer to hold people endlessly responsible for past indiscretions?

From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2016

And in my turn I have enacted, or experienced, many a little apologue.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

The apologue seizes on that which man has in common with creatures below him, and the parable on that which he has in common with God.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

There was really a touching truth in it, the stuff of—what did people call such things?—an apologue or a parable.

From The Sacred Fount by James, Henry