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fictional places in literature

can you name the literary origins of these fictional places
not including speculative fiction set in other worlds—these are fictional places that "exist" in the real world
for locations that appear in many works, enter the name of the author who created them
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location
type of work
year(s)
title
Lilliput
novel
1726
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Xanadu
poem
1797
Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Middlemarch
novel
1872
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Omelas
short story
1973
The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula K. LeGuin
Casterbridge
novel
1886
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
Christminster, North Wessex
novel
1895
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Avonlea, Prince Edward Island
novel
1908
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Arkham, Massachusetts
various works
1920s-1930s
works of H. P. Lovecraft
Yoknapatawpha County
various works
1920s-1950s
works of William Faulkner
Grover's Corners, New Hampshire
play
1938
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
Airstrip One, Oceania
novel
1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Ramsdale, New England
novel
1955
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Ilium, New York
various works
1950s-1970s
works of Kurt Vonnegut
Maycomb, Alabama
novel
1960
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Macondo
novel
1967
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Derry, Maine
various works
1980s-present
works of Stephen King
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