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Political fiction is a subgenre of fiction that deals with political affairs. Political fiction has often used narrative 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." (1) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2548, 376 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Thomas More Lord Mayor of London Hans Holbein the Younger Mortification of the flesh Lord Chancellor Frick Collection... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2548, 376 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Thomas More Lord Mayor of London Hans Holbein the Younger Mortification of the flesh Lord Chancellor Frick Collection... 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Prominent pieces of political fiction have included the anti-communist dystopias of the early 20th century. Equally influential, if not more so, however, have been earlier pieces of political fiction such as Gulliver's Travels (1726), Candide (1759) and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Anti-communism is opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either a theoretical or practical level. ... A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia[1], kakotopia or anti-utopia) is a fictional society that is the antithesis of utopia. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... First Edition of Gullivers Travels Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers tales literary sub-genre. ... Candide, ou lOptimisme, (Candide, or Optimism) (1759) is a French language picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. ... Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. ...

Classics

• 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
• 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
• Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
• The Return of the Deputy (1790), by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

• Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens
• The Betrothed (1842) by Alessandro Manzoni
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Palliser novels (1864–1879) by Anthony Trollope
• War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
• Thus Spake Zarathustra (1887) by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy
• Pharaoh (1895) by Bolesław Prus

• Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
• Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
• The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (1932) by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
• Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) by George Orwell
• All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
• Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand
• The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon
• Advise and Consent (1959) by Allen Drury
• Seven Days in May (1962) by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey
• Primary Colors (1996) by Joe Klein (as "Anonymous")

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First Edition of Gullivers Travels Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers tales literary sub-genre. ... Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gullivers Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapiers Letters, The Battle of the Books, and... Candide, ou lOptimisme, (Candide, or Optimism) (1759) is a French language picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. ... For the sport horse, see Voltaire (horse). ... Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieści, 1779) by Ignacy Krasicki is an enduring classic of Polish literature. ... Ignacy Krasicki Ignacy Krasicki (February 3, 1735, in Galicia — March 14, 1801, in Berlin) was a Polish prince of the Roman Catholic Church, a social critic, a leading writer, and the outstanding poet of the Polish Enlightenment, hailed by contemporaries as the Prince of Poets. ... Categories: 1758 births | 1841 deaths | Polish writers | Polish nobility | People stubs ... Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty is a historical novel by the author Charles Dickens. ... Dickens redirects here. ... Disambiguation: for the Walter Scott novel, please see The Betrothed (1825) I Promessi Sposi (in English, The Betrothed) is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni. ... Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (March 7, 1785–May 22, 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. ... Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. ... Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose Uncle Toms Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential as well in Britain. ... The Palliser novels are six novels by Anthony Trollope. ... Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. ... War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. ... Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: , IPA:  ), commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy (September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910) was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. ... The cover for the first part of the first edition. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (IPA: ) was a German philosopher. ... Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from western Massachusetts, enjoyed picking his nose and was first published in 1888. ... Edward Bellamy, circa 1889. ... Pharaoh (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last of the major novels by BolesÅ‚aw Prus. ... BolesÅ‚aw Prus BolesÅ‚aw Prus (pronounced: [bÉ”lεswaf prus]; August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), born Aleksander GÅ‚owacki, was a Polish journalist, short-story writer, and novelist. ... Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of Costaguana. ... Joseph Conrad. ... Brave New World is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1932. ... Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. ... Tadeusz DoÅ‚Ä™ga-Mostowicz (August 10, 1898 – September 20, 1939) was the Polish author of over a dozen popular novels. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long. ... Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ... Cover of All the Kings Men This article is about the book. ... Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and was one of the founders of The New Criticism. ... Nineteen Eighty-Four (commonly written as 1984) is a dystopian novel by the English writer George Orwell, published in 1949. ... Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ... Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the USA. It was Rands last work of fiction before concentrating her writings exclusively on philosophy, politics and cultural criticism. ... Ayn Rand (IPA: , February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Russian: ), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher,[1] best known for developing Objectivism and for writing the novels We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and the novella Anthem. ... The Manchurian Candidate is a 1959 thriller novel written by Richard Condon, later adapted into films in 1962 and 2004. ... Richard Thomas Condon (born March 18, 1915 in New York, New York; died April 9, 1996 in Dallas, Texas), was a satirical novelist best known for conspiratorial tales such as The Manchurian Candidate. ... Advise and Consent is a political novel written by Allen Drury and published in 1959. ... Allen Stuart Drury (September 2, 1918 _ September 2, 1998) was a U.S. novelist. ... Seven Days in May is a political thriller novel published by Harper & Row, New York in 1962(current hardcover edition: ISBN 0-06-012436-9) written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey. ... Fletcher Knebel (1911-1993) was an American author of several popular works of political fiction. ... Primary Colors, a 1996 novel by Anonymous (later revealed by Donald Foster to be journalist Joe Klein), is a roman à clef about U.S. President Bill Clintons first presidential campaign in 1992. ... Joe Klein (b. ... Look up anon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Science fiction

• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) by Ursula Le Guin
• The Mars trilogy (1990s) by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Notes

1. "HIST 294 - Political Fiction", December 12, 2005

See also

• Utopian and dystopian fiction
• Social science fiction
• Politics in fiction
• Assassinations in fiction