This is a list of fictional stories in which politics features as an important plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this list. Written works 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 (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 Max Havelaar (1860) by Multatuli Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev The Palliser novels (1864–79) by Anthony Trollope Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) by George Eliot War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy The History of a Town (1870) by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils (1872) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Cathedral Clergy, also known as The Cathedral Folk (1872) by Nikolai Leskov The Way We Live Now (1875) by Anthony Trollope Honest John Vane (1875) by John William De Forest The Gilded Age (1876) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) by Émile Zola Democracy: An American Novel (1880) by Henry Adams An Enemy of the People (1882), play by Henrik Ibsen An American Politician (1884) by F. Marion Crawford The Princess Casamassima (1886) by Henry James Prince Otto (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson The Bostonians (1886) by Henry James Noli Me Tangere (1887) by José Rizal Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy El filibusterismo (1891) by José Rizal The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope Pharaoh (1895) by Bolesław Prus Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages (1900) by Jack Adams, pseudonym for A.O. Grigsby and Mary P. Lowe The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad