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Dictionary of Tolkien
A D.H. Lawrence album
Faulkner's county
In search of Tusitala
Steinbeck country
A dictionary of the characters and scenes in the novels, romances, and short stories of H. G. Wells
The Nature of Middle-Earth
Space and place in the works of D.H. Lawrence
The magykal papers
The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth
Shakespeare
Tony Hillerman's Navajoland
A Thomas Hardy dictionary
The getaway guide to Agatha Christie's England
A Tennyson dictionary
Wordsworth and the Lake District
Shakespearean criticism
THE MAP OF TOLKIEN'S MIDDLE-EARTH
So Jane
The Atlas of Middle-earth
Jane Austen and the English landscape
Haunted city
Amos Walker's Detroit
Chandlertown
Georgette Heyer's Regency world
Thomas Hardy, landscapes of the mind
The Hornblower companion
Where Shakespeare set his stage
Betjeman country
The London of Charles Dickens
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