Savrola

Savrola is Winston Churchill’s first major literary effort and his only full-length work of fiction. Published in the U.S. in 1899 and 1900 in the U.K., the novel’s subtitle, A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, reflects the story’s modern political focus. Savrola contains the seeds of Churchill’s exceptional talents as a statesman, a political philosopher, and a man of literature. The ambition of Savrola to rule foreshadows Churchill’s own life-long career as the greatest democratic leader of the past century. In the novel, Churchill the thinker explores the challenges of securing…