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A ruined abbey, a farmhouse with green gables and a fortress at sea all gave novelists something they could use. These photographs pair real places with the books that made them familiar. Some sites appear under their own names. Others supplied a landscape, a building or a suggestion for a place the writer invented. The captions explain what connects each place to the page.

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Whitby Abbey
Whitby Abbey: The empty Gothic windows of Whitby Abbey look out from the headland above the North Sea. Bram Stoker visited…
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Green Gables (Prince Edward Island)
Green Gables (Prince Edward Island): The white farmhouse and green roof at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, belonged to…
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Château d'If
Château d'If: The pale stone fortress sits on a small island off Marseille. Alexandre Dumas made the Château d'If the…
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Top Withens
Top Withens: A ruined farmhouse sits on the open moor above Haworth in West Yorkshire. It has long been associated with…
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Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri: The Mississippi runs past the edge of Hannibal in this view from Lover's Leap. Mark Twain drew on the…
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Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House: The long stone front of Chatsworth reflects in the water at this Derbyshire estate. The house played…
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Old Monroe County Courthouse
Old Monroe County Courthouse: The white cupola marks the old courthouse in Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee grew up…
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Seamen's Bethel
Seamen's Bethel: A pulpit shaped like a ship's bow stands at the front of the Seamen's Bethel in New Bedford…
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Jamaica Inn
Jamaica Inn: The low stone inn at Bolventor sits on Cornwall's Bodmin Moor. Daphne du Maurier stayed here and went riding…
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Davy Byrne's pub
Davy Byrne's pub: Davy Byrne's is the Duke Street pub where Leopold Bloom stops for a Gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of…
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University of Oxford Botanic Garden
University of Oxford Botanic Garden: The planted paths and glasshouses belong to the real Oxford Botanic Garden. In Philip…
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London King's Cross railway station
London King's Cross railway station: The broad concourse is inside London's King's Cross, where the Hogwarts Express…
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Kamishima
Kamishima: Fishing boats rest beside the harbor on Kamishima, at the mouth of Japan's Ise Bay. Yukio Mishima used the…
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Campo de Criptana
Campo de Criptana: One of Campo de Criptana’s white windmills stands above the tiled roofs of the town in Spain’s La…
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Leoncio Prado Military Academy
Leoncio Prado Military Academy: The long, symmetrical school front belongs to the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Callao…

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