What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s 1933 allegorical novel about a man’s spiritual journey?

C.S. Lewis’s 1933 allegorical novel about a man’s spiritual journey is The Pilgrim’s Regress. Its subtitle, An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism, signals the book’s intellectual and religious aims.

The protagonist, John, travels through a symbolic landscape while encountering figures and ideas that represent competing philosophies, desires, and religious positions. The structure deliberately recalls John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, but Lewis’s book addresses modern debates that concerned him.

The novel was Lewis’s first published work of prose fiction. It appeared soon after his conversion to Christianity and before the better-known Narnia books and popular apologetic works that established his international reputation.

Readers sometimes confuse this title with The Great Divorce, another Lewis allegory involving a journey and spiritual choices. The two books differ in setting, structure, and publication date, with The Pilgrim’s Regress appearing in 1933.