Books tagged with Politics[13 found]
Plain Tales from the Hills
by Rudyard Kipling
Categories: Fiction » Politics
Amid the heat and dust of the Raj, sharp, compact sketches follow soldiers, civil servants, memsahibs and misfits as ambition, gossip, and desire rule the hill stations and cantonments. With wit and sting, these tales reveal fragile reputations, mismatched marriages, sudden tragedies and sly redemptions—an intimate atlas of empire where small choices carry outsized consequences.
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The Monikins
by James Fenimore Cooper
Categories: Fiction » Politics
A satirical voyage to a land of talking monkeys reveals a sharp critique of human folly and society’s pretensions. Through wit and adventure, it explores morality, politics, and the absurdities that define civilization.
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The Iron Heel
by Jack London
Categories: Fiction » Politics
Told as a found manuscript, a socialist orator and his fierce partner rise against a ruthless corporate oligarchy that crushes strikes, rigs elections, and builds a secret police state. Street battles, underground cells, and betrayals trace the birth of a long tyranny—and the stubborn hope of a future revolt that might one day break the boot on humanity’s neck.
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Under Western Eyes
by Joseph Conrad
Categories: Fiction » Politics
In a czarist city of spies and informers, a timid student is coerced into betraying a fiery revolutionary and then driven abroad to face the exiles who trusted him. Torn between cowardice, guilt, and a desperate need to be understood, he stumbles through plots, interrogations, and doomed love, seeking a truth that may destroy him.
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The New Machiavelli
by H. G. Wells
Categories: Fiction » Politics
A brilliant politician’s rise and fall exposes the clash between personal desire and public duty. Through ambition, idealism, and betrayal, the story lays bare the moral struggles behind power and the cost of pursuing greatness.
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When William Came
by Hector H. Munro
Categories: Fiction » Politics
In a quietly conquered Britain, citizens wake to find their island absorbed into a foreign empire, its language, laws, and loyalties rewritten from above. Amid salons, clubs, and drawing rooms, some adapt for comfort while others quietly seethe, weighing safety against sacrifice as they debate whether resistance is noble—or hopeless.
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
by Joseph Conrad
Categories: Fiction » Politics
In a restless South American port, greed and idealism collide when a hidden treasure ignites ambition, betrayal, and revolution. Through the fate of a trusted man caught between honor and corruption, the story exposes the moral cost of power and the illusions that drive empires and men alike.
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The Reign of Greed
by José Rizal
Categories: Fiction » Politics
Years after a failed romance and rebellion, a man returns to Manila disguised as a wealthy jeweler, nursing a plan to burn the rotten colony to its roots. He tempts officials and friars, arms students with dangerous ideas, and prepares a single, shattering act to ignite revolt. A dark portrait of a society strangled by hypocrisy—and the price of awakening.
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Felix Holt, the Radical
by George Eliot
Categories: Fiction » Politics
Set amid social unrest and political change, this story follows a principled young man striving for justice and reform. As he navigates love, class tensions, and moral dilemmas, integrity and courage are tested in a vivid portrait of society and the pursuit of ideals.
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The Bostonians Vol. I
by Henry James
Categories: Fiction » Politics
Boston, after the war, hums with reform. A zealous heiress discovers a radiant young orator whose gift could rouse a movement—just as a proud Southern cousin arrives, determined to rescue her from “fanaticism” and claim her future for himself. In salons, lecture halls, and drawing rooms, wit becomes a weapon and affection a battleground, as three wills vie to shape one dazzling voice.
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Categories: Fiction » Politics
In an industrial town dominated by facts and rigid logic, lives intertwine with struggle, ambition, and heartache. This powerful story exposes the human cost of utilitarian thinking, showing how compassion, imagination, and resilience are essential to survive and thrive.
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The Confidence-Man
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Politics
A Mississippi steamboat drifts toward New Orleans on April Fools’ Day, and a protean stranger keeps reappearing in new guises—a cripple, a cosmopolitan, a charity agent—testing passengers’ trust and greed. Each bargain and sermon chips at certainty until money, morality, and identity blur, leaving the voyage a mirror where every believer risks being the next dupe.
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
Categories: Fiction » Politics
On his thirtieth birthday, a bank clerk is arrested without being told the crime. Drawn through airless attics and shadowed offices, he meets a wheedling lawyer, a weary painter, and judges no one can face. Pride curdles to dread as the machinery of accusation grinds on, forcing him to question guilt, freedom, and the sentence already closing in.
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