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not to be confused with Legal fiction
Legal fiction

Legal fictions are fact or situations assumed or created by courts which are then used to resolve matters before them. Legal fictions are mostly encountered under common law systems....
Political fiction is a subgenre of fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
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not to be confused with Legal fiction
Legal fiction

Legal fictions are fact or situations assumed or created by courts which are then used to resolve matters before them. Legal fictions are mostly encountered under common law systems....
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Political fiction is a subgenre of fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
 that deals with political affairs. Political fiction has often used narrative
Narrative

A narrative or story that is created in a constructive format that describes a sequence of fictional or Non-fiction events. It derives from the Latin language verb narrare, which means "to recount" and is related to the adjective gnarus, meaning "knowing" or "skilled"....
 to provide commentary on political events, systems and theories. Works of political fiction often "directly criticize an existing society or... present an alternative, sometimes fantastic, reality."

Prominent pieces of political fiction have included the anti-totalitarian dystopia
Dystopia

A dystopia is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. A dystopian society is one in which the conditions of life are suffering, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution....
s of the early 20th century such as Jack London's The Iron Heel
The Iron Heel

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an Oligarchy tyranny in the United States....
 and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here

It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B....
. Equally influential, if not more so, however, have been earlier pieces of political fiction such as Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels , officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre....
 (1726), Candide
Candide

Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a ian the Age of Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, English translations of which have been titled Candide: Or, All for the Best ; Candide: Or, The Optimist ; and Candide: Or, Optimism ....
 (1759) and Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and History of slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the Origins of the American Civil War lea...
 (1852). Political fiction frequently employs the literary modes of satire
Satire

Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic arts and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improv...
 and utopia
Utopia

Utopia is a name for an ideal community or society, taken from the Utopia written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect social system-politics-legal system....
.

Notable Examples

  • The Republic
    Republic (Plato)

    The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and Political philosophy, and Plato's best known work....
     (ca. 360 BCE) by Plato
    Plato

    Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....


  • Panchatantra
    Panchatantra

    The Panchatantra or Tantrakhyayika also known in other cultures as Kalileh o Demneh or Anvar-e Soheyli or Kalilag and Damnag or Kalilah wa Dimnah or Kalila and Dimna or The Fables of Bidpai or The Morall Philosophie of Doni was originally a canon...
     (ca. 200 BCE) by Vishnu Sarma
    Vishnu Sarma

    Vishnu Sarma was the author of the anthropomorphic political treatise called Panchatantra.Vishnu Sarma lived in Varanasi in the 3rd century BC....


  • Utopia
    Utopia (book)

    Utopia, with the subtitle On the best state of a republic and on the new island of Utopia , is a 1516 book by Sir Saint Thomas More....
     (1516) by Thomas More
    Thomas More

    Saint Thomas More was an English lawyer, author, and statesman who in his lifetime gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist scholar, and occupied many public offices, including Lord Chancellor ....
  • The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys (1578) by Jan Kochanowski
    Jan Kochanowski

    Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance List of Polish language poets who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish Polish literature language ....


  • Don Quixote
    Don Quixote

    , fully titled is an early novel written by Spain author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story based upon a manuscript by the invented Moors historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli....
     (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes
    Miguel de Cervantes

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel by many, is a classic of Western literature and is regularly regarded among the best novels ever written....
  • Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
    Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

    Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen was a Germany author.Grimmelshausen was born at Gelnhausen. At the age of ten he was kidnapped by Hesse soldiery, and in their midst tasted the adventures of military life in the Thirty Years' War....
  • The Pilgrim's Progress
    The Pilgrim's Progress

    The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come by John Bunyan is a Christian allegory. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of English literature, has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print....
     (1678) by John Bunyan
    John Bunyan

    John Bunyan was an English Christianity writer and preacher, famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress, arguably the most famous published Christian allegory....


  • Persian Letters
    Persian Letters

    Persian Letters is a satire work, by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, recounting the experiences of two Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who are traveling through France....
     (1721) by Montesquieu
  • Gulliver's Travels
    Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels , officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre....
     (1726) by Jonathan Swift
    Jonathan Swift

    Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satire, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Dublin....
  • Candide
    Candide

    Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a ian the Age of Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, English translations of which have been titled Candide: Or, All for the Best ; Candide: Or, The Optimist ; and Candide: Or, Optimism ....
     (1759) by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Fran?ois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Age of Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosophy known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberty, including freedom of religion and free trade....
  • The History and Adventures of an Atom
    The History and Adventures of an Atom

    The History and Adventures of an Atom, by Tobias Smollett .This is a savage satire of English politics during the Seven Years' War. It appears under the guise of a tale from ancient Japan....
     (1769) by Tobias Smollett
    Tobias Smollett

    Tobias George Smollett was a Scotland poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle , which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens....
  • Fables and Parables
    Fables and Parables

    Fables and Parables , by Ignacy Krasicki, is a noted work in a long international tradition of fable that reaches back to antiquity. ...
     (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
    Ignacy Krasicki

    Ignacy Krasicki , from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno , was Poland's leading Polish Enlightenment poet , Fables and Parables, author of the Adventures of Mr....
  • The Return of the Deputy (1790) by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
    Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

    Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz was a Poland poet, playwright and statesman. He was a leading advocate for the Constitution of May 3, 1791....


  • Barnaby Rudge
    Barnaby Rudge

    Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty is an historical novel by the author Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels that Dickens published in his short-lived weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841, when Barnaby Rudge was published....
     (1841) by Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens

    Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
  • The Betrothed
    The Betrothed

    The Betrothed is an Italian language historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827 in literature, in three volumes. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language....
     (1842) by Alessandro Manzoni
    Alessandro Manzoni

    Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni was an Italy poet and novelist.He is famous for the novel The Betrothed , one of the major works of Italian literature....
  • Coningsby (novel)
    Coningsby (novel)

    Coningsby, or The New Generation, is an English political fiction by Benjamin Disraeli published in 1844....
     (1844) by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Tancred (1847) by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and History of slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the Origins of the American Civil War lea...
     (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S....
  • A Tale of Two Cities
    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the France aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries t...
     (1859) by Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens

    Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
  • Fathers and Sons
    Fathers and Sons

    Fathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, his best known work. The title of this work in Russian is ???? ? ???? , which literally means "Fathers and Children"; the work is often translated to Fathers and Sons in English language for reasons of euphony....
     (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
    Ivan Turgenev

    'Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction....
  • The Palliser novels
    Palliser novels

    The "Palliser novels" are six novels by Anthony Trollope.The common thread is the wealthy aristocrat and politician Plantagenet Palliser and his wife Lady Glencora....
     (1864–1879) by Anthony Trollope
    Anthony Trollope

    Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English language novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on politics, social, gender issues and conflicts of hi...
  • War and Peace
    War and Peace

    War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkiy Vestnik , which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era....
     (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist and Education reform made him the most influential member of the aristocracy Tolstoy....
  • Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils (1872), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Gilded Age
    The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

    The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-American Civil War America....
     (1876) by Mark Twain
    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
     and Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner

    Charles Dudley Warner was an United States essayist and novelist.Warner was born of Puritan ancestry, in Plainfield, Massachusetts. From age 6-14, he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts, the scene of the experiences pictured in his study of childhood, Being a Boy ....
  • Democracy: An American Novel
    Democracy: An American Novel

    Democracy: An American Novel is a political novel written by Henry Brooks Adams and published Anonymous work in 1880 in literature. Only after the writer's death in 1918 did his publisher reveal Adams's authorship although, upon publication, the novel had immediately become popular....
     (1880) by Henry Adams
  • The Princess Casamassima
    The Princess Casamassima

    The Princess Casamassima is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886....
     (1886) by Henry James
    Henry James

    Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
  • The Bostonians
    The Bostonians

    The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885?1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of fictional character: Basil Ransom, an unbending political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a zealous Bosto...
     (1886) by Henry James
  • Looking Backward
    Looking Backward

    Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from Western Massachusetts, and was first published in 1888 in literature....
     (1888) by Edward Bellamy
    Edward Bellamy

    Edward Bellamy was an United States author and socialist, most famous for his utopia novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000....
  • Pharaoh
    Pharaoh (novel)

    Pharaoh is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Boleslaw Prus. Composed over a year's time in 1894–1895, it was the sole historical novel by an author who had previously disapproved of historical novels as inevitable distortions of history....
     (1895) by Boleslaw Prus
    Boleslaw Prus

    Boleslaw Prus , whose actual name was Aleksander Glowacki, was a Poland journalist and novelist who is known especially for his novels The Doll and Pharaoh ....


  • Nostromo
    Nostromo

    Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Poland-born United Kingdom novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana." It was originally published Serial ly in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly....
     (1904) by Joseph Conrad
    Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad was a Polish novelist, writing in English. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, despite his not having learned to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties ....
  • The Jungle
    The Jungle

    The Jungle is a 1906 in literature novel written by author and Socialism journalist Upton Sinclair. It was written about the corruption of the United States meatpacking industry during the early 20th century....
     (1906) by Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair, Jr. , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning prolific United States author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating Socialism views....
  • The Iron Heel
    The Iron Heel

    The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an Oligarchy tyranny in the United States....
     (1908) by Jack London
    Jack London

    Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books....
  • Under Western Eyes
    Under Western Eyes

    Under Western Eyes is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in Saint Petersburg and Geneva and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment; Conrad being reputed to have detested Dostoevsky....
     (1911) by Joseph Conrad
    Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad was a Polish novelist, writing in English. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, despite his not having learned to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties ....
  • Herland
    Herland (novel)

    Herland is a utopian novel from 1915 in literature, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis ....
     (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent United States sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and non fiction,and a lecturer for social reform....
  • The Trial
    The Trial

    The Trial is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified crime....
     (1925) by Franz Kafka
    Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka was one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German language-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Austria-Hungary, presently the Czech Republic....
  • The Castle
    The Castle

    The Castle is a novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist, known only as K., struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village where he wants to work as a surveying....
     (1926) by Franz Kafka
    Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka was one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German language-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Austria-Hungary, presently the Czech Republic....
  • The Shadow of the Caudillo (1929) by Martín Luis Guzmán
    Martín Luis Guzmán

    Mart?n Luis Guzm?n Franco was a prominent Mexico novelist and journalist of the first half of the 20th century.Guzm?n was born in Chihuahua, Chihuahua....
  • Brave New World
    Brave New World

    Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 in literature and published in 1932 in literature. Set in the London of AD 2540 , the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society....
     (1932) by Aldous Huxley
    Aldous Huxley

    Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963....
  • The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma
    The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma

    The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma is a 1932 Polish bestseller novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.The book was made into a 1956 Polish film with Adolf Dymsza in the title role, then into a 1980 television miniseries starring Roman Wilhelmi and in 2002, a movie, starring Cezary Pazura....
     (1932) by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz
    Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz

    Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz was a Poland journalist and author of over a dozen popular novels. The best known, which in Poland became a byword for fortuitous careerism, was The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma ....
  • Antoine Bloye (1933) by Paul Nizan
    Paul Nizan

    Paul Nizan was a France philosopher and writer.He was born in Tours and studied in Paris where he befriended fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre at the Lyc?e Henri IV....
  • The President
    The President

    The President is a mountain peak on the The President/Vice-President Massif, just North of Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park, near the Alpine Club of Canada's Stanley Mitchell hut....
     (1933, published 1946) by Miguel Ángel Asturias
    Miguel Ángel Asturias

    Miguel ?ngel Asturias Rosales was a Nobel Prize?winning Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat. Asturias helped establish Latin American literature's contribution to mainstream Western culture, and at the same time drew attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala....
  • It Can't Happen Here
    It Can't Happen Here

    It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B....
     (1935) by Sinclair Lewis
    Sinclair Lewis

    Sinclair Lewis was an United States novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical vi...
  • Darkness at Noon
    Darkness at Noon

    Darkness at Noon is the most famous novel by Hungary-born United Kingdom novelist Arthur Koestler. Published in 1940 in literature, it tells the tale of Rubashov, a Old Bolshevik and Russian Revolution of 1917 who is first cast out and then imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet Union government he once helped create....
     (1940) by Arthur Koestler
    Arthur Koestler

    Arthur Koestler Order of the British Empire was a Jewish-Hungary polymath author who became a naturalized United Kingdom subject....
  • Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945 in literature, the book reflects events leading up to and during the History of the Soviet Union before World War II....
     (1945) by George Orwell
    George Orwell

    Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an England author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language....
  • All the King's Men
    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1946. The novel was inspired by the biography of List of Governors of Louisiana Huey Long; its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty ....
     (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
    Robert Penn Warren

    Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers....
  • Lonely Crusade (1947) by Chester Himes
    Chester Himes

    Chester Bomar Himes was a famous African American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels....
  • Walden Two
    Walden Two

    Walden Two is a utopian novel by Radical behaviorism psychologist B. F. Skinner, describing a small, thousand-person, rural planned community of happy, productive, and creative people....
     (1948) by B. F. Skinner
    B. F. Skinner

    Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform,and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974....
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four
    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic utopian and dystopian fiction by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949 in literature, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime....
     (1949) by George Orwell
    George Orwell

    Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an England author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language....
  • Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) by Gore Vidal
    Gore Vidal

    Gore Vidal is an United States novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer and politician. Early in his career he wrote the ground-breaking The City and the Pillar , which outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality....
  • The Outsider
    The Outsider (Richard Wright)

    The Outsider is a novel by Richard Wright , first published in 1953. The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative to show American racism in raw and ugly terms....
     (1953) by Richard Wright
    Richard Wright

    Richard Wright may refer to:* Richard Wright , also known as Rick Wright, founding member of Pink Floyd* Richard B. Wright , Canadian novelist...
  • The Quiet American
    The Quiet American

    The Quiet American is a novel by United Kingdom author Graham Greene. It was adapted into films in 1958 and 2002....
     (1955) by Graham Greene
    Graham Greene

    Henry Graham Greene Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour was an English writer best known as a novelist, but who also produced short stories, plays, screenplays, travel writing and criticism....
  • Atlas Shrugged
    Atlas Shrugged

    Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in literature in the United States. It was Rand's fourth, List of longest novels, and last novel....
     (1957) by Ayn Rand
    Ayn Rand

    Ayn Rand , was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism ....
  • The Ugly American
    The Ugly American

    The Ugly American is the title of a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. It became a bestseller, was influential at the time, and is still in print....
     (1958) by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
    Eugene Burdick

    Eugene Burdick , was an American Political Scientist and co-author of The Ugly American , Fail-Safe and The 480 .He was born in Sheldon, Iowa....
  • The Manchurian Candidate
    The Manchurian Candidate

    The Manchurian Candidate is a 1959 in literature thriller novel written by Richard Condon, adapted into films in The Manchurian Candidate and The Manchurian Candidate ....
     (1959) by Richard Condon
    Richard Condon

    For the impresario see Richard Condon Richard Thomas Condon , was a satirical and Thriller novelist best known for conspiratorial books such as The Manchurian Candidate....
  • Advise and Consent
    Advise and Consent

    Advise and Consent is a 1959 political fiction written by Allen Drury which explores the reactions of those in and around the United States Senate to the controversial nomination of Robert Leffingwell, a former Communist Party member, to be United States Secretary of State....
     (1959) by Allen Drury
    Allen Drury

    Allen Stuart Drury was a United States of America novelist. He wrote the 1959 novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960....
  • The Golden Notebook
    The Golden Notebook

    The Golden Notebook is a 1962 in literature novel by United Kingdom Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing. This book, as well as the couple that followed it, enters the realm of what Margaret Drabble in The Oxford Companion to English Literature has called Lessing's "inner space fiction", her work that explores mental and societal...
     (1962) by Doris Lessing
    Doris Lessing

    Doris May Lessing Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire is a Zimbabwe-United Kingdom writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook....
  • Seven Days in May (1962) by Fletcher Knebel
    Fletcher Knebel

    Fletcher Knebel was an United States author of several popular works of political fiction.Knebel was born in Dayton, Ohio, but moved a number of times during his youth....
     and Charles W. Bailey
  • The Comedians
    The Comedians (novel)

    The Comedians is a novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1966. Set in Haiti under the rule of Fran?ois Duvalier and his secret police, the Tonton Macoute, The Comedians tells the story of a tired hotel owner, Brown, and his increasing fatalism as he watches Haiti descend into barbarism....
     (1966) by Graham Greene
    Graham Greene

    Henry Graham Greene Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour was an English writer best known as a novelist, but who also produced short stories, plays, screenplays, travel writing and criticism....
  • The Late Bourgeois World (1966) by Nadine Gordimer
    Nadine Gordimer

    Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate.Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa....
  • Cancer Ward (1967) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russians novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system, and for these efforts Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974....
  • Reasons of State (1974) by Alejo Carpentier
    Alejo Carpentier

    Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essay writer, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous Latin American Boom....
  • I, the Supreme
    I, the Supreme

    I, the Supreme is a historical novel written by exiled Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos. It is a fictionalized account of the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator Jos? Gaspar Rodr?guez de Francia, who was also known as "Dr....
     (1974) by Augusto Roa Bastos
  • The Chocolate War
    The Chocolate War

    The Chocolate War is a young adult literature novel by United States author Robert Cormier and first published in 1974. It was adapted into a film in 1988....
     (1974) by Robert Cormier
    Robert Cormier

    Robert Edmund Cormier was an United States author, columnist and reporter, known for his deeply pessimistic, downbeat literature. His most popular works include I Am the Cheese, After the First Death, We All Fall Down and The Chocolate War, all of which have won awards....
  • The Autumn of the Patriarch
    The Autumn of the Patriarch

    The Autumn of the Patriarch is a novel written by Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez in 1975.A "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator....
     (1975) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel Jos? de la Concordia Garc?a M?rquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garc?a M?rquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century....
  • Guerrillas (1975) by V. S. Naipaul
    V. S. Naipaul

    Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Knight Bachelor, Trinity Cross , better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidad and Tobago-born United Kingdom writer of Indo-Trinidadian descent, currently resident in Wiltshire....
  • The Monkey Wrench Gang
    The Monkey Wrench Gang

    The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by United States author Edward Abbey , published in 1975.Easily Abbey's most famous fiction work, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest Natural environment damaging activities in the American Southwest, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrenching" has come to mean, besides...
     (1975) by Edward Abbey
    Edward Abbey

    Edward Paul Abbey was an United States author and essayist noted for his advocacy of natural environment issues and criticism of public land policies....
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
    Kiss of the Spider Woman

    Kiss of the Spider Woman is a 1985 in film Brazilian-United States drama film. It was directed by Argentina-born Brazilian director Hector Babenco, and adapted by Leonard Schrader from the Manuel Puig novel Kiss of the Spider Woman ....
     (1976) by Manuel Puig
    Manuel Puig

    Manuel Puig was an Argentina author. Among his best known novels are La traici?n de Rita Hayworth , Boquitas pintadas , and El beso de la mujer ara?a , which was made into a Kiss of the Spider Woman by the Argentine-Brazilian Director, H?ctor Babenco and in 1993 into a Kiss of the Spider Woman ....
  • The Handmaid's Tale
    The Handmaid's Tale

    The Handmaid's Tale is a utopian and dystopian fiction by Canadian literature Margaret Atwood, first published by McClelland and Stewart 1985 in literature....
     (1985) by Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood

    Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada is a Canada author, poet, literary criticism, feminist and activism. She is among the most-honored authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C....
  • Anthills of the Savannah
    Anthills of the Savannah

    Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. A finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize for Fiction, it has been described as the "most important novel to come out of Africa in the [1980s]."...
     (1987) by Chinua Achebe
    Chinua Achebe

    Chinua Achebe , born Albert Chin?al?m?g? Achebe on 16 November 1930, is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart , which is the most widely read book in modern African literature.....
  • Vineland
    Vineland

    Vineland is a 1990 novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern tale of life in the 1980s United States. Its central locale is Vineland, California, a fictional small town in California's Anderson Valley ....
     (1990) by Thomas Pynchon
    Thomas Pynchon

    Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American literature based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English studies degree from Cornell University....
  • Blindness
    Blindness

    Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness." Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as "NLP," an abbreviation for "no ligh...
     (1995) by Jose Saramago
    José Saramago

    Jos? de Sousa Saramago, Order of St. James of the Sword is a Nobel Prize for Literature Portugal novelist, playwright and journalist....
  • Primary Colors
    Primary Colors

    Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics is a 1996 in literature novel by "Anonymity" ....
     (1996) by Joe Klein
    Joe Klein

    Joe Klein is a longtime Washington, D.C. and New York journalist and columnist, known for his novel Primary Colors , an anonymously-written roman ? clef portraying Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign....
     (as "Anonymous
    Anonymity

    Anonymity is derived from the Greek word a??????a, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, the term typically refers to a person, and often means that the Identity , or personally identifiable information of that person is not known....
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  • The Gospel According To Larry
    The Gospel According to Larry

    The Gospel According to Larry is a politics, Romance novel teen novel by Janet Tashjian that explores anti-materialism. A sequel, Vote for Larry, was published on May 1, 2004, and a third novel, Larry and the Meaning of Life, which launched on September 16, 2008....
     (2003) by Janet Tashjian
    Janet Tashjian

    Janet Tashjian is an American author who writes books targeted at young adults. She is married and has a son....
  • Seeing
    Seeing

    The word seeing can mean more than one thing:* In common usage, the word means visual perception* Astronomical seeing, the blurring effects of air turbulence in the atmosphere...
     (2004) by Jose Saramago
    José Saramago

    Jos? de Sousa Saramago, Order of St. James of the Sword is a Nobel Prize for Literature Portugal novelist, playwright and journalist....
  • The Polity of Beasts (2007) by Renald Iacovelli
    Renald Iacovelli

    Renald Iacovelli is an American author. His novels are remarkable for their eccentric characters and a general disdain of urbanism....
  • The Writing on the Wall (2007) by Hannes Artens


Science fiction

  • The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    The Dispossessed

    The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness ....
     (1974) by Ursula Le Guin
  • The Mars trilogy
    Mars trilogy

    The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and Terraforming of Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries....
     (1990s) by Kim Stanley Robinson
    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Kim Stanley Robinson is an United States science fiction writer, probably best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy.His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the 15 years of research and lifelong fascination with M...


See also

  • Utopian and dystopian fiction
    Utopian and dystopian fiction

    The utopia and its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world, or utopia, as the setting for a novel....
  • Social science fiction
    Social science fiction

    Social science fiction is a term used to describe a subgenre of science fiction concerned less with technology and space opera and more with sociological speculation about human society....
  • Politics in fiction
    Politics in fiction

    This is a list of fictional stories in which politics features as an important Plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this list....
  • Assassinations in fiction
    Assassinations in fiction

    Assassinations have formed a major plot element in various works of fiction and have also attracted scholarly attention. In Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy: Transformations in Society and Culture, Stephen Gundle and Lucia Rinaldi analyze modern Italian assassinations in their historical and cultural contexts and explore the fil...