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Scene Maps

Maps of classic public-domain novels drawn from the text, with every place pinned to a named edition and chapter, and entries on the addresses they invented.

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Sepia view of stone cottages above a shallow stream, laundry drying on a line, and a misty hill behind

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Dracula Map: Counted Here, Most Chapters Stay in England

By this page's count, 19 of Dracula's 27 chapters are set mainly in England. Every place tied to a chapter and a sentence, with Castle Dracula left unplaced.

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"Houses by a beck (Whitby II)" by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, undated — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sutcliffe,_Frank_Meadow_(5226243318).jpg — Public domain (US: Sutcliffe (1853-1941) worked as a commercial photographer; the print is presumed published in his working life, before 1931 (presumption, not checked); Germany: 70 years after his death in 1941, expired 2011 (UrhG §64); France: 70 years after death, CPI L123-1 general rule, not checked against Légifrance; he was English, so the died-for-France extension does not apply (not checked))

Engraving of a man in checked trousers entering a club salon, hat in hand, a crowd behind him and members rising

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Around the World in 80 Days: Fogg's Route, Dated by the Text

Verne's text dates Fogg's departure to 2 October 1872 and his deadline to 21 December. A map of the 21 legs, with counted dates and unplaced stops marked.

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"The return to the Reform Club" by Alphonse de Neuville or Léon Benett, 1874 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days%27_by_Neuville_and_Benett_(139390668).jpg — Public domain (US: published in Paris by Hetzel by 1874 (National Library of Poland record "Paris: Hetzel, [1874]"), before 1931; Germany: Alphonse de Neuville died 1885 and Léon Benett 1917, so 70 years after death have run out (UrhG §64); France: the same, 70 years after death, CPI L123-1 general rule, not checked against Légifrance; Benett was French and died in 1917, the died-for-France extension was not checked, and 100 years after 1917 have also passed; the wood engraver is not identified and is presumed out of copyright from working years in the 1870s (presumption)); modified: cropped from the book page, desaturated and contrast adjusted on Wikimedia Commons before download

Engraving of two men at a breakfast table, one seated with a coffee pot before him and one standing as he reads a newspaper

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221B Baker Street: Holmes's Rooms in the Stories, 1887–1903

Holmes's address as Doyle's text gives it: No. 221B, Baker Street in 1887, then the steps, windows and the house opposite, story by story, with a CSV.

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"Breakfast in the rooms (The Five Orange Pips)" by Sidney Paget, 1892 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Paget_-_The_Five_Orange_Pips_01.jpg — Public domain (US: published 1891 in The Strand Magazine and 1892 in the Harper book edition (published before 1931); Germany and France: Paget died 1908 (GND 114595541X), so 70 years after death have run out (UrhG §64; CPI L123-1, general rule, not checked against Légifrance); he was British and died before 1914, so the French 'mort pour la France' extension does not apply; the halftone block maker's mark (W&S Ld) is a firm active by 1892 (presumed out of copyright))