Political fiction books

The Candidate: A Political Romance

Joseph A. Altsheler

The Candidate: A Political Romance is a work of political fiction that follows a campaign trail set against…

Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The work is a short, self‑conscious narrative that presents itself as the “notes” of a disgruntled former…

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

Joseph Conrad

The work is a compact political thriller set in turn‑of‑the‑century London, where the seemingly mundane shop…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel is a work of political and didactic fiction that foregrounds slavery as its…

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

Twain, Mark; Warner, Charles Dudley

The work is a satirical political fiction set against a backdrop of speculative iron deals and family…

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Hard Times is a social‑problem novel set in an industrial England that treats its characters as data points…

The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

Thomas Dixon, Jr.

The novel is a sprawling historical romance that places its characters amid the turbulent aftermath of…

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

The novel opens in a bustling back‑room of a Chicago saloon, where a Lithuanian wedding is in full swing.

The Young Duke

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The Young Duke is a sprawling work of political and social fiction that follows the early life of George…

A Man of Two Countries

Alice Harriman

A Man of Two Countries is a political‑fiction set against the rugged backdrop of Montana and the Canadian…

Rautakorko: Vallankumousromaani

Jack London

Tämä on Jack Londonin “Rautakorko: Vallankumousromaani”, teos, jossa tieteiskirjallisuus yhdistyy…

A Woman for Mayor: A Novel of To-day

Helen M. Winslow

Helen M. Winslow’s novel is a political fiction that foregrounds the question of women’s civic leadership at…

The Dictator

Justin McCarthy

The novel opens in a richly described London hotel suite, where the exiled ruler of the South‑American…

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty

Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge is Charles Dickens’s historical‑fiction novel that intertwines the turbulent Gordon Riots of…

Half a Hero: A Novel

Anthony Hope

Half a Hero is a political fiction that opens amid a tangled garden‑side debate about who should replace the…

The possessed: or, The devils

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The work is a sprawling piece of Russian political fiction that centers on Stepan Trofimovitch, a self‑styled…

A passage to India

E. M. Forster

The novel is a work of early‑20th‑century political fiction that situates its drama in the Indian town of…

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton is a domestic narrative that intertwines love, family, and the stark…

The iron heel

Jack London

The Iron Heel is a speculative political novel that blends science‑fiction vision with a sharply observed…

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Joseph Conrad

The work is a sprawling sea‑faring political novel that blends the romance of sailors’ adventures with the…

The Man Who Would Be King

Rudyard Kipling

The story is a political adventure set in the British‑Indian frontier, where the narrator, a weary civil…

The New Machiavelli

H. G. Wells

The work is a self‑conscious political novel that opens with a narrator confessing his restless attempts to…

Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The work is a sprawling political novel that sets its stage in the glittering world of the 1837 Derby, using…

Coningsby; Or, The New Generation

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Coningsby is a mid‑nineteenth‑century political novel by Benjamin Disraeli, the future Earl of Beaconsfield.