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January 5, 2018January 6, 2018 Conor19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, British Literature, Fantasy

Notes on a Selection of Fictional Countries [Article]

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to invent a new country. In the 18th and 19th centuries there were still places unknown to European society – “blank spaces on the earth”, as Marlow in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness once put it. New, unheard of countries were begging to be discovered, mapped, read more…

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