In Fiction
- The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914), and The Stoic (1947), Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, based on the life of the notorious transit mogul Charles Tyson Yerkes
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Hollywood film 1939)
- Atlas Shrugged (1957 novel)
- The Government Inspector (1836 novel)
- Henry Adams' novel Democracy (1880)
- Carl Hiaasen's novel Sick Puppy (1999)
- Much of the Batman comic book series
- V for Vendetta comic book series
- The Ghost in the Shell Anime films and series
- Animal Farm a novel by George Orwell
- Training Day (2001 film)
- Exit Wounds (2001 film)
- American Gangster (2007 film)
- Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men (1946)
- Guru (2007 film) (Indian film)
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer’s role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“Coincidence is a pimp and a cardsharper in ordinary fiction but a marvelous artist in the patterns of facts recollected by a non-ordinary memorist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)