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This page is about the places (or, in a few cases, times – specifically wars) that novels, plays and stories are set in.
| Author | Title | Q: In which ... is (author)'s (title) set? | Answer | |
| Richard Adams | Watership Down | English county |
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Hampshire |
| Jay Anson | The Amityville Horror (and sequels) | US state |
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New York |
| Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | Fictional republic – a totalitarian patriarchal theocracy, covering most of what is now (in the real world) the continental United States |
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Gilead |
| Beryl Bainbridge | Every Man for Himself | Historical event |
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Sinking of the Titanic |
| H. E. Bates | The Darling Buds of May | English county |
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Kent |
| A. J. Cronin | Dr. Finlay stories | Fictional town |
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Tannochbrae |
| Fyodr Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | City |
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St. Petersburg |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Scenic part of England – now a National Park |
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Dartmoor |
| Joseph Conrad | Nostromo | Fictional South American republic |
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Costaguana |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage | War |
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American Civil War |
| Louis de Bernières | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | (Real–life) Greek island |
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Cephalonia |
| Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | State prison (featured in) |
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Chateau d'If |
| Gerald Durrell | My Family and Other Animals (childhood memoir) | Mediterranean island |
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Corfu |
| Daphne du Maurier | Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek | English county |
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Cornwall |
| Jamaica Inn | Moor |
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Bodmin Moor | |
| F. Scott FitzGerald | The Great Gatsby | (Setting of Gatsby's mansion) |
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Long Island |
| E. M. Forster | A Room with a View | Italian city (partly) |
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Florence |
| John Fowles | The French Lieutenant's Woman | English south coast town |
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Lyme Regis |
| Richard Gordon | Doctor in the House | Fictional hospital |
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St. Swithins |
| Winston Graham | Poldark series | English county |
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Cornwall |
| Graham Greene | The Quiet American | Country |
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(French) Vietnam |
| Graham Greene | The Third Man | European city |
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Vienna |
| Graham Greene | The Comedians | Caribbean country |
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Haiti |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | Caribbean country (also where it was written) |
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Cuba |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms (semi–autobiog novel) | War |
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World War I |
| Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | War |
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Spanish Civil War |
| James Herriot | ('vet' books) | Fictional Yorkshire town |
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Darrowby |
| Anthony Hope | The Prisoner of Zenda, Rupert of Hentzau | Fictional country |
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Ruritania |
| Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's Schooldays | English public school |
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Rugby |
| Henry James | The Aspern Papers | City |
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Venice |
| Jerome K. Jerome | The Men in a Boat | River |
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Thames |
| James Joyce | Ulysses | City |
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Dublin |
| M. M. Kaye | The Far Pavilions | Country |
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India |
| D. H. Lawrence | The Plumed Serpent | Country |
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Mexico |
| John le Carre | A Small Town in Germany | German city |
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Bonn |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | Fictional "tired old town" in Alabama |
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Maycomb |
| Laurie Lee | Cider with Rosie (childhood memoirs) | English county |
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Gloucestershire |
| Compton Mackenzie | Whisky Galore | Fictional Scottish islands
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Great and Little Todday |
| W. Somerset Maugham | The Moon and Sixpence | South Sea island |
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Tahiti |
| Stephenie Meyer | Twilight series | City in Washington state |
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Forks |
| L. M. Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | Canadian island province |
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Prince Edward Island |
| George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty–Four | Fictional "superstate" (one of three) |
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Oceania |
| Ellis Peters | Brother Cadfael stories | English town |
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Shrewsbury |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Pit and the Pendulum | Country |
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Spain |
| Carlos Ruiz Zafón | The Shadow of the Wind | City |
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Barcelona |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | Country (Frankenstein's home country) |
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Switzerland |
| Alexander McCall Smith | Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency (series) | Country |
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Botswana |
| John Steinbeck | Cannery Row | Californian city |
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Monterey |
| Dylan Thomas | Under Milk Wood (radio play) | Fictional Welsh village |
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Llareggub |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings | Fictional continent
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Middle–Earth |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | War (conflict) |
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Napoleonic Wars |
| Sue Townsend | The Adrian Mole books | Adrian's home town (Leicestershire) |
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Ashby–de–la–Zouch |
| Robert Tressell | The Ragged–Trousered Philanthropists | Fictional town |
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Mugsborough |
| Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn | Town on the Mississippi (in Missouri state) |
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St. Petersburg |
| Irvine Welsh | Trainspotting | City |
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Edinburgh |
| Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Country |
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Peru |
| Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Named Desire | US city |
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New Orleans |
The final table on this page covers settings that are based on real places, but given fictional names. For example: "In Charlotte Brontë's novel Villette, on which European capital city is Villette based?"
| Charlotte Brontë | Villette | European capital city | Villette |
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Brussels |
| George Eliot | Middlemarch | Midland city | Middlemarch |
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Coventry |
| Mrs. Gaskell | Cranford | Cheshire town | Cranford |
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Knutsford |
| Charles Kingsley | The Water Babies | Yorkshire crag | Lewthwaite Crag |
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Malham Cove |
| Anthony Trollope | Barsetshire Novels | English city | Barchester |
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Winchester |
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