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Guidebook

Generally a nonfiction book that details a certain geographic area.

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Fictional Guidebooks

16 books — 8 voters

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11 books — 2 voters

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“ The guide–book warmly recommends the seashore when the wind is in the east (which it was) as the quickest and firmest route from Göhren to Thiessow; but I chose rather to take the road over the plain because there was a poem in the guide–book about the way along the shore, and the guide–book said it described it extremely well, and I was sure that if that were so I would do better to go the other way. This is the poem — the translation is exact, the original being unrhymed, and the punctuation i ...more ”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

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