{{Short description|1953 novel by Alec Coppel}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox book| <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject Books --> | name = The Last Parable | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:The Last Parable.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Alec Coppel | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = Character study | publisher = Arthur Barker<ref>"BOOKS RECEIVED" ''The Manchester Guardian'' Manchester (UK) 25 April 1953: 3.</ref> | release_date = 1953 | english_release_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''The Last Parable''''' is a 1953 novel by Alec Coppel about the life and times of a judge. It differed from much of Coppel's usual output in that it was not a murder mystery or comedy.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7122/is_201004/ai_n54365765/ Vagg, Stephen. 'Alec Coppel: Australian Playwright and Survivor.' ''Australasian Drama Studies'', No. 56, Apr 2010: 219-232.]</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23303330 |title=BOOKS. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=26 September 1953 |accessdate=2 January 2016 |page=11 Supplement: The Argus Weekender |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The book was banned in Ireland.<ref>"'Picture Post' on banned list" ''The Irish Times''; Dublin, Ireland 20 June 1953: 4.</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C381833 ''The Last Parable''] at AustLit
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