Political Fiction - Notable Examples

Notable Examples

This is a list of a few of the early or notable examples; others belong on the main list

• The Republic (ca. 360 BCE) by Plato
• Panchatantra (ca. 200 BCE) by Vishnu Sarma
• Utopia (1516) by Thomas More
• The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys (1578) by Jan Kochanowski
• Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes
• Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
• The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
• Persian Letters (1721) by Montesquieu
• Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
• Candide (1759) by Voltaire
• The History and Adventures of an Atom (1769) by Tobias Smollett
• Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
• The Return of the Deputy (1790) by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
• The Partisan Leader (1836) by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
• Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens
• The Betrothed (1842) by Alessandro Manzoni
• Coningsby (novel) (1844) by Benjamin Disraeli
• Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli
• Tancred (1847) by Benjamin Disraeli
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
• Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
• The Palliser novels (1864–1879) by Anthony Trollope
• War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
• Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils (1872), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Gilded Age (1876) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
• Democracy: An American Novel (1880) by Henry Adams
• The Princess Casamassima (1886) by Henry James
• The Bostonians (1886) by Henry James
• Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy
• Pharaoh (1895) by Bolesław Prus
• Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
• The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair
• The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London
• Under Western Eyes (1911) by Joseph Conrad
• The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell
• The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
• The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka
• Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
• Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) by George Orwell
• Walden Two (1948) by B. F. Skinner
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
• Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) by Gore Vidal
• The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene
• Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand
• The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon
• The Comedians (1966) by Graham Greene
• Cancer Ward (1967) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Washington, D.C. (1967) by Gore Vidal
• Burr (1973) by Gore Vidal
• The Chocolate War (1974) by Robert Cormier
• Guerrillas (1975) by V. S. Naipaul
• 1876 (1976) by Gore Vidal
• Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon
• United States of Banana (2011) by Giannina Braschi