From Middlemarch to King Richard III: 15 of the best political novels and plays by Tim Adams, Robert McCrum

Fiction and drama hold a mirror to the virtues and vices of an age. Here's our pick of the bestRead the rest of the Observer's 100 political books series hereRichard Wright wrote to his friend William Faulkner that black and white Americans were engaged in a "war over the nature of reality". The terms of Wright's engagement in that ongoing war were set by his 1940 novel Native Son, which sold 250,000 copies in its fi…

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