Fictional Places in Books
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| 18. |  Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift. Lilliput is the most famous.
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| 17. | Setting for three novels by the writer Anthony Hope . The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), The Heart of Princess Osra (1896), and Rupert of Hentzau (1898).
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| 16. | Stories of JRR Tolkien. Middle-earth refers to the fictional 'mortal' lands where some of the stories of author JRR Tolkien take place.
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| 15. | Books of Tintin
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| 14. | Island utopia in Aldous Huxley's 'Island'
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| 13. | From Thomas More's 'De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia'
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| 12. | Thomas Hardy's West Country novels and poetry. Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the Kingdom of England.
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| 11. | A tiny, rocky island nation located in the Caribbean Sea in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
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| 10. | From CS Lewis' 'The Chronicles of Narnia'
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| 9. | In James Hilton's novel 'Lost Horizon'
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| 8. | From the novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell
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| 7. | County created by American author William Faulkner as a setting for many of his novels. It is widely believed by scholars that Lafayette County, Mississippi is the basis for Yoknapatawpha County.
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| 6. | Homeland of the Robert E. Howard character 'Conan the Barbarian'
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| 5. | Country appearing in several Donald Duck stories, possibly referring to the Soviet Union
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| 4. | Stories of P. G. Wodehouse
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| 3. | Ian Fleming's children's story 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'
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| 2. | Books of RK Narayan
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| 1. | Eastern European country from the comic strip Dilbert
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