Saturday, July 16, 2011

The Where: 7 Settings in Literature

A lonely beach on an overcast, dreary day.

A cramped but cozy apartment in the heart of New York City.

A quiet field, filled with daisies.

Authors choose their settings for for specific reasons.  They create worlds out of words, but sometimes it helps the reader to have a visual apart from black letters on a white page.

With this in mind, Loud Library presents a few snapshots of famous settings in literature to help your imagination get a jump start:

  1. The character of Robin Hood.  Traditional hero of English folklore.  Photo by AP Images.
  2. Wuthering Heights.  By Emily Brontë.  Photo by Tim Green.
  3. Walden.  By Henry David Thoreau.  Photo by Phillip Capper.
  4. Little House on the Prairie.  By Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Photo by Sheila Scarborough.
  5. The character of Sherlock Holmes.  Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Photo by José María Mateos.
  6. One Hundred Years of Solitude.  By Gabriel García Márquez.  Photo by AP Images.
  7. A Streetcar Named Desire.  By Tennessee Williams.  Photo by AP Images.
Photo editing and slideshow by Loud Library.

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