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Literary Wonderlands

This list is pulled from the wonderful book Literary Wonderlands edited by Laura Miller. From the book's jacket: "A glorious, full-illustrated collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms."
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (N.K. Sandars Translator)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
1
N.K. Sandars Translator
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
2
Homer
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses
3
Ovid
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
4
Anonymous
The Thousand and One Nights
The Thousand and One Nights
5
Mabinogion (Evangeline Walton)
Mabinogion
6
Evangeline Walton
The Prose Edda (Sturlulson)
The Prose Edda
7
Sturlulson
Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
Divine Comedy
8
Dante Alighieri
Le Morte D'Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory)
Le Morte D'Arthur
9
Sir Thomas Malory
Orlando Furioso (Ludovico Ariosto)
Orlando Furioso
10
Ludovico Ariosto
Utopia (Thomas More)
Utopia
11
Thomas More
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene
12
Edmund Spenser
Journey to the West
Journey to the West
13
The City of the Sun
The City of the Sun
14
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
15
Miguel De Cervantes
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest
16
William Shakespeare
A Voyage to the Moon (Cyrano De Bergerac)
A Voyage to the Moon
17
Cyrano De Bergerac
The Blazing World
The Blazing World
18
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
19
Jonathan Swift
Niles Klim (Ludvig Holberg)
Niles Klim
20
Ludvig Holberg
The Water Babies (Charles Kingsley)
The Water Babies
21
Charles Kingsley
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
22
Lewis Carroll
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
23
Jules Verne
Erewhon (Samuel Butler)
Erewhon
24
Samuel Butler
The Ring of the Nibelung (Libretti) (Richard Wagner)
The Ring of the Nibelung (Libretti)
25
Richard Wagner
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Treasure Island
26
Robert Louis Stevenson
Flatland (Edwin Abbott Abbott)
Flatland
27
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Edward Bellamy)
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
28
Edward Bellamy
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
29
Mark Twain
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine
30
H.G. Wells
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
31
L. Frank Baum
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (Barrie, J.M.)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
32
Barrie, J.M.
The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Lost World
33
Arthur Conan Doyle
At the Earth's Core
At the Earth's Core
34
Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
35
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (May Gibbs)
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
36
May Gibbs
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
We
37
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
38
Franz Kafka
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales (H. P. Lovecraft)
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
39
H. P. Lovecraft
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
40
Aldous Huxley
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