Is there a literary work, possibly one assigned to high school students, that contains political undertones?

I think that teaching nearly any work of literature can
inspire a discussion of its political implications.  In order to do this, one has to
make the argument to students that there are political implications and a residue of
politics to any work that is created.  Even works that seek to not be political are,
infact, political, because they seek to be something else than what is around them.  In
teaching students about the political undertones in work, we ask the students to examine
several elements in the construction of work.  The author's background and biography
play a role in this.  The time period in which the work is created is another element in
this study.  What were the prevailing political attitudes of the time period in which
the work was written?  How does the work approach these notions?  Another political
element was the critical and popular reception of the work.  Analyzing this might allow
another examination of a work's political reality to emerge.  It is here where I think
that teachers and students can assess the political state of any work, and not simply
works that deal with political reality.