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
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