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Don’t go before reading: Which book is set in which city?

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Sometimes a movie or a book can transport you to another place, perhaps one you didn’t even know existed (or perhaps a place that exists in the author’s imagination!). Today’s topic is the books that not only take us away metaphorically, but inspire us to travel in reality.

To all our readers – can you pair the city setting with the book? Keep reading to take our fun quiz!


White Nights, a short story written by a 27-year-old Fyodor Dostoyevsky, presents the tale of a lonely young man in a beautiful city renowned for its white winter nights. Which city is this?


Oliver Twist, the child character in Charles Dickens' novel of the same name, explores the streets of which European capital in the book?


Amid which city's historical atmosphere does Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, depicting Jean Valjean's complicated and sad life journey, take place?  


In which city do the events of Dan Brown's exciting novel Angels and Demons, published in 2000, take place?


Huzur, one of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's most important works, is a story set prior to the Second World War. In the book, Tanpınar describes the districts, culture and architecture of which city?


Which city is noted in Knut Hamsun's novel Hunger, a semi-autobiographical narrative describing the physical and emotional travails of a struggling writer?  


Agatha Christie's 1937 detective novel, Death on the Nile, features details from which city?


In which city did Albert Camus's novel The Stranger deal with the alienation of the individual from himself and society?

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