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Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Correlates to the real-life Pentridge, Dorset. Turnhill, Staffordshire. Arnold Bennett. Anna of the Five Towns. Two Mills, Pennsylvania. Jerry Spinelli. Maniac Magee. Magee runs around and lives in a couple parts of this racially divided town.
Town Name Origin Notes Azure City The Order of the Stick: Fictional capital of a country of the same name, the setting for a large portion of the Webcomic The Order of the Stick. Brigadoon Brigadoon: Brigadoon is a village in the Scottish Highlands, the setting of the musical of the same name. Chako Paul City [23] Chinese press agencies
List of fictional galactic communities. List of fictional islands. Planets in science fiction. List of fictional police states. List of fictional prisons. List of fictional railway stations. List of fictional rapid transit stations. List of fictional schools. List of fictional British and Irish universities.
Granite is one of the principal materials used in the architecture of Aberdeen, to the extent that it has become known as "The Granite City". Aberdare "Swît Byr-dɛ̄r (Gwentian Welsh), Sweet 'Berdare (English)" [3] – A nickname remembered by the very old in the town, but no longer in general use.
Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson.The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man.
A Christmas Story: MGM: Hohman is a fictional city from A Christmas Story. The name is derived from Hohman Avenue, a major street in downtown Hammond, Indiana. Holby: Casualty, Holby City, HolbyBlue: BBC: A fictional city in the United Kingdom, in which BBC medical dramas Casualty and Holby City, and police drama HolbyBlue are set.
This is a list of fictional city-states in literature.A city-state is a sovereign state that consists of a city and its dependent territories. [1] [2] They have been an important aspect of human society, and historically included famous cities like Athens, Carthage, Rome, [2] and the Italian city-states of the Renaissance.
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.