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excludes places that are off the planet Earth (eliminating many science fiction locales), as well as "heavens and hells and places of the future," and literary pseudonyms for existing places, like the
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The book is widely noted for the number and excellence of its illustrations, by Graham Greenfield, and its maps and charts, by James Cook. Guadalupi and Manguel acknowledge Philip Grove's
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Encyclopèdie de l'Utopie, des Voyages extraordinaires et de la Science-Fiction
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covers the terrains that readers of literature would expect—
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Originally published in 1980 and expanded in 1987 and 1999, the
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The book had an influence on the development of early Japanese
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New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980, 1987, 1999.
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A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory.
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Index

Alberto Manguel
Gianni Guadalupi
Baedecker
gazetteer
Ruritania
Shangri-La
Xanadu
Atlantis
L. Frank Baum
Oz
Lewis Carroll
Wonderland
Thomas More
Utopia
Edwin Abbott
Flatland
C. S. Lewis
Narnia
Jonathan Swift
J. R. R. Tolkien
Dylan Thomas
Cervantes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Carl Sandburg
Rabelais
Arthur Conan Doyle
Marx Brothers
Duck Soup
Yoknapatawpha County
William Faulkner

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