  many works of fiction are set in london, the capital city of england. ==folklore== * arthurian legends * robin hood * dick whittington and his cat ==early fiction== * geoffrey chaucer - the canterbury tales (late 14th century) * daniel defoe - a journal of the plague year (1722), moll flanders (1722) * gulliver's travels - jonathan swift (1726) ==19th century fiction==  * many of charles dickens's most famous novels are at least partially set in london, including oliver twist (1838), the old curiosity shop (1840), a christmas carol (1843), david copperfield (1850), bleak house (1853), little dorrit (1857), a tale of two cities (1859), great expectations (1861), our mutual friend (1865), and the mystery of edwin drood (1870). * william makepeace thackeray - vanity fair (1847) * jules verne - around the world in eighty days () (1872) * henry james - the princess casamassima (1886), a london life (1888), what maisie knew (1897), in the cage (1898) * robert louis stevenson - the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde (1886) * oscar wilde - the picture of dorian gray (1891) * h. g. wells - the time machine (1895), the invisible man (1897), the war of the worlds (1898) * somerset maugham - liza of lambeth (1897) * bram stoker's - dracula (1897) comes to london in order to seduce mina harker. * arthur conan doyle's sherlock holmes stories. holmes live at 221b baker street - a fictional address since baker street was much shorter in victorian times. the docklands area plays a large part in the sign of four. * george gissing's novels are almost exclusively set in london, including the nether world (1889), new grub street (1891) and the odd women (1893). * irishman [[geor
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