Which C.S. Lewis novel follows the journey of John through an allegorical landscape?

C.S. Lewis’s novel following John through an allegorical landscape is The Pilgrim’s Regress.

Published in 1933, The Pilgrim’s Regress was Lewis’s first book-length work of fiction. Its title deliberately recalls John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, but Lewis’s story places its protagonist in a modern intellectual and religious landscape. John travels through places and encounters figures that represent ideas, philosophies, and spiritual positions.

Lewis wrote the book soon after his conversion to Christianity. The narrative reflects his engagement with questions about desire, reason, authority, faith, and modern culture. A lengthy subtitle identifies it as an allegorical apology for Christianity, reason, and romanticism.

The work is sometimes confused with The Great Divorce, another Lewis allegory involving a journey and spiritual choices. The Great Divorce, published in 1945, is framed as a dreamlike trip from a drab version of hell toward heaven. The Pilgrim’s Regress is earlier and centers on John’s symbolic progress.