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It's kind of crazy to what extent geography can inform an author's work. Jack London spent most of his life at sea, dog-sledding across Alaska, boxing and generally being an adventurous guy who would put today's REI crowd to shame. Would he have penned some of the greatest American novels otherwise? especially ones concerned primarily with man battling the elements for survival in both a mental and physical sense? Very probably not, which explains why Oscar Wilde didn't write about wolves and crazy ship captains.

No, Oscar Wilde wrote primarily about fops and society people parrying witticisms incessantly. That's not to say his work has no place in a serious consideration of literature—au contraire, The Picture of Dorian Grey is one of the finest novels written in English. It's just more evidence that if you're an author who lives in the Canadian mountains or the clubs of London, your writing will reflect that.

Physical terrain isn't the only consideration. Sartre wrote about people lolling about with no real sense of purpose except to drink wine and smoke cigarettes and look languorous because he lived in France in the 1940s. Friedrich Nietzsche had immense mustaches and espoused a form of nihilism because he was German. The Russians wrote impossibly long novels because they lived in Russia. And Chinua Achebe was almost entirely influenced by his African upbringing.

That's not to say no one can write well about a context they haven't experienced firsthand. I'm pretty sure Robert Heinlein never visited Mars, and even if he did it wasn't as his books describe; the same goes for Bradbury. And no, Roald Dahl was never lost in a delightfully (though at times, terrifyingly) absurd chocolate factory. Yet even with these examples, the authors conveyed essentially the attitudes of the countries they came from—Heinlein and Bradbury from the U.S., Dahl from the U.K.

Our Literature by Place subcategories are admittedly Anglo-centric. North American literature features, well, American literature, and you can be pretty sure British literature reflects the same system; everything else goes in world literature. We have plenty of non-American or -British literature, we just don't have much from any one place besides those two. At any rate, we hope these categories are helpful, and if they guide you toward one book you're looking for (or maybe one you didn't even know existed), they've done their job.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
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	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 4 by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Junior Deluxe Editions by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Troy Howell from Dilithium Press, Ltd. for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 1 by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 3 by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Kay Nielsen from Viking Press for 3rd-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustrated Junior Library Series 2 by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap Fairy Tales for 3rd-6th grade in Illustrated Junior Library (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Windermere Readers #8 by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Valdemar Paulsen and illustrated by Milo Winter 1954 Edition from Rand McNally for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Windermere Series 1 by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Valdemar Paulsen and illustrated by Milo Winter from Rand McNally for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Windermere Series 2 (Cover 1) by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Valdemar Paulsen and illustrated by Milo Winter from Rand McNally for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Windermere Series 2 (Cover 2) by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Valdemar Paulsen and illustrated by Milo Winter from Rand McNally for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Windermere Series 3 by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Valdemar Paulsen and illustrated by Milo Winter from Rand McNally for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales Windermere Series 4 by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Valdemar Paulsen and illustrated by Milo Winter from Rand McNally for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Andersen's Fairy Tales / Grimm's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm from Grosset & Dunlap for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Animal Stories Tales of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats from Junior Deluxe Editions for 2nd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Ardizzone's Hans Andersen Fourteen Classic Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone from Atheneum for 3rd-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Bag of Moonshine by Alan Garner, illustrated by P. J. Lynch from Delacorte Press for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Bambi's Children Story of a Forest Family by Felix Salten, illustrated by Erna Pinner from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Bambi's Children Story of a Forest Family by Felix Salten, illustrated by Kurt Wiese from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Celtic Fairy Tales by Neil Philip, illustrated by Isabelle Brent from Viking Press for 3rd-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum, illustrated by Willy Pogany from Macmillan Norse Mythology for 3rd-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $40.00 (1 in stock)
	Children of the Northlights by Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Ingri d'Aulaire Reprint from University of Minnesota for Preschool-4th grade in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER) $16.95
	Children of the Northlights by Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Ingri d'Aulaire 1962 Reprint from Viking Press for Preschool-4th grade in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
	Children of the Soil A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon, illustrations by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire 1936 Printing from Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc. for 3rd-6th grade 1933 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Christmas Carol Little Unicorn by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Walt Sturrock from Unicorn Publishing House for 2nd-4th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
	CS: Gulliver's Travels Retold from the original Classic Starts by Jonathan Swift, adapted by Martin Woodside and Illustrated by Jamel Akib Adapted from Sterling Publishing Co. for 2nd-4th grade in Sterling Classic Starts (Location: SER-SCS)
	D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Edgar & Ingri D'Aulaire from New York Review of Books Norse Mythology for 3rd-8th grade in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER) $29.95
	D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls by Edgar & Ingri D'Aulaire from New York Review of Books for 3rd-6th grade in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER) $22.95
	East of the Sun & West of the Moon by Mercer Mayer from Four Winds Press for 1st-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Ingri & Edgar Parin D'Aulaire from Viking Press for Kindergarten-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	East of the Sun and West of the Moon by László Gál from Firefly Books for 1st-4th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	East of the Sun and West of the Moon Macmillan Classics by P. C. Asbjornsen & Jorgen E. Moe, illustrated by Tom Vroman from Macmillan for 1st-4th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $16.00 (1 in stock)
	ECL: Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Brigitte Bryan from Classic Press for 3rd-6th grade in Educator Classic Library (Location: VIN-ECL)
	ECL: Black Beauty Educator's Classic Library by Anna Sewell, illustrated by Michael Rios from Classic Press for 3rd-7th grade in Educator Classic Library (Location: VIN-ECL)
	Elvis and His Secret by Maria Gripe First American Printing from Delacorte Press for 3rd-6th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Emperor's New Clothes Folk Tale Classic Library by Virginia Lee Burton (designed and illustrated), Hans Christian Andersen from Clarion Books for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $9.99
	Fables of Aesop by Aesop, illustrated by Edward J. Detmold from Gramercy Books for Kindergarten-4th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Edited by Signe Toksvig, Illustrated by George and Doris Hauman from Macmillan for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $25.00 (1 in stock)
	Finding Narnia The Story of C. S. Lewis and His Brother by Caroline McAlister, Illustrated by Jessica Lanan from Roaring Brook Press for Preschool-3rd grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $21.99
	Folk Tales of Latin America by Shirlee Newman, illustrated by Dorothy Rosenwasser and J. Correas Flores 1^st edition from Bobbs-Merril Co for 2nd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Grimms' & Andersen's Fairy Tales Set by Hans Christian Andersen & the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Fritz Kredel and Arthur Szyk from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Michael Adams from Unicorn Publishing House for 2nd-5th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	John Ronald’s Dragons The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien by Caroline McAlister, Illustrated by Eliza Wheeler from Roaring Brook Press for Preschool-3rd grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $22.99
	Kaleidoscope of Fairies & Fables by Hans Andersen, Aesop, Kipling & the Brothers Grimm, retold by Robert Mathias from Hamlyn for Kindergarten-4th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Charles Santore First Edition from Gramercy Books for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Neil Philip, illustrated by Isabelle Brent from Little, Brown & Company for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1^st edition from Harcourt for 3rd-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, translated by Richard Howard from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Fantasy for 3rd-Adult in Everyman's Library Children's Classics (Location: FIC-ELC) $18.00
	Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery from Harcourt Fantasy for 3rd-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $7.50 (1 in stock)
	Little Prince - Russian language edition by Antoine De Saint-Exupery from Eksmodetstvo Fantasy for 3rd-Adult in Russian (Location: FL-GEN)
	Michael Hague's Favourite Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Michael Hague from Henry Holt and Company for Kindergarten-4th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	My Papa Diego and Me / Mi papa Diego y yo Memories of My Father and His Ar t/ Recuerdos de mi padre y su arte by Guadalupe Rivera Marin Bilingual for 1st-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Mythmakers The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien by John Hendrix from Harry N. Abrams, Inc. for 3rd-Adult in The Inklings (Location: LIR-INK) $24.99
	Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Demi First Edition from Harcourt, Brace & World for 1st-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen; retold by Stephen Mitchell and illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline from Candlewick Press for 2nd-6th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland from Barnes & Noble for 3rd-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Norse Myths Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki by Kevin Crossley-Holland from Candlewick Press for 3rd-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Odin's Family Myths of the Vikings by Neil Philip, illustrated by Maryclare Foa from Orchard Books for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Ola by Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Ingri d'Aulaire Reprint from University of Minnesota for 3rd-6th grade in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER) $16.95
	Paddington Here and Now Paddington Bear #12 by Michael Bond from HarperCollins for 3rd-7th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN) $9.99
	Pippi Goes on Board Pippi Longstocking #2 by Astrid Lindgren from Viking Press Humor for 2nd-6th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Random House Book of Fairy Tales by Various Authors from Random House Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends for 3rd-6th grade in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE) $22.99
	Rasmus and the Vagabond by Astrid Lindgren, translated by Gerry Bothmer and illustrated by Eric Palmquist from Viking Press for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	River of Words Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant First Edition from Eerdmans for 1st-4th grade 2009 Caldecott Honor Book, Sibert Medal in Biographies (Location: BIO) $18.00
	Seven Tales by H. C. Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Eva Le Gallienne and illustrated by Maurice Sendak from Harper & Row for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Sally Holmes from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books for 3rd-6th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Jean Hersholt and illustrated by Sanna Annukka from Ten Speed Press for 1st-3rd grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $16.00
	Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Tasha Pym from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for 1st-3rd grade in Everyman's Library Children's Classics (Location: FIC-ELC)
	Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Anthea Bell and illustrated by Yana Sedova from Minedition for 1st-3rd grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $19.99
	Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Naomi Lewis and illustrated by Angela Barrett from Henry Holt and Company for 1st-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Snow Queen OSI by Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Neil Philip and illustrated by Sally Holmes from Armadillo Books for 3rd-6th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Anderson, translated by M.R. James, illustrated by Marcia Brown from Atheneum for Kindergarten-3rd grade 1954 Caldecott Honor Book in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $19.99
	Terrible Troll-Bird by Ingri & Edgar Parin D'Aulaire from NYR Children's Collection for Kindergarten-4th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Thunder of the Gods by Dorothy Hosford, illustrated by Claire & George Louden from Henry Holt and Company for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Treasury of French Tales by Henri Pourrat, translated by Mary Mian, illustrated Pauline Baynes from Houghton Mifflin for 3rd-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Erik Christian Haugaard 1^st edition from Barnes & Noble for 2nd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Twenty-Two Russian Tales for Young Children by Leo Tolstoy, selected, translated, and with an afterword by Miriam Morton, illustrated by Eros Keith from Simon and Schuster for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	Wonderful Adventures of Nils Travel and Adventure Library for Young Folks by Selma Lagerlof, translated by Velma Swanston Howard, and illustrated by Mary Hamilton Frye 1930s printing from Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc. for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)

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