Map of Literature
The authors’ homes, the works’ settings, the sites of legend — from Troy to Stratford, from Chang’an to Kyoto, many are real places. Tap a marker for the story, tap the legend to filter.
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Sites of Western Literature
Sites of Chinese Literature
Sites of World Literature
The places that cannot be mapped: the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, the Grand View Garden, the giants of La Mancha’s castle — literature deliberately sets them on the border of the real and the imagined. The coastline data is shared with "History of Technology" (Natural Earth, longitude -130° to 145°, latitude 10° to 72°), covering the Mediterranean, Western Europe, China, Japan, India, and Persia; place coordinates use standard historical and literary identifications.