What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s 1933 allegorical novel about a journey through a spiritual landscape?

The Pilgrim’s Regress is C.S. Lewis’s 1933 allegorical novel about a journey through a spiritual landscape.

The book follows John, a character who leaves his home after seeing a distant light and travels through a landscape filled with figures and places representing philosophical, political, and religious ideas. Lewis subtitled it An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism, signaling its concern with both belief and intellectual desire.

The novel was Lewis’s first prose work after his conversion to Christianity. It was influenced by John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, but Lewis’s allegory addresses modern debates and includes commentary on ideologies and cultural movements of his own era.

The Pilgrim’s Regress is sometimes confused with The Great Divorce, another Lewis allegory involving travel and spiritual choice. The later book was published in 1945 and uses a different setting, characters, and narrative structure.