Books Where the Setting Is Unforgettable

Place so vividly rendered it becomes character — you can smell and feel these settings.

The Narrow Corner by William Somerset Maugham
Lucretia, or The children of night by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Kate Greenaway's Original Drawings for The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Mary Wakefield by Mazo de la Roche
Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising #1) by Susan Cooper
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

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