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    by Dickens, Charles
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    by Hugo, Victor
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    by Hardy, Thomas
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    by Hesse, Hermann
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    by Tolstoy, Leo
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    by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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    by Cervantes, Miguel de
  • Pride and Prejudice
    by Austen, Jane
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
    by Poe, Edgar Allan
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    by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
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    by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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Etc. - Why is "------" used to obsqure a town name?

Thanks! Your answers mirror my former assumption, but I couldn't seem to convince myself of so simple an explanation; I needed to hear it from those of higher mind than I. Much appreciated!

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Etc. - Why is "------" used to obsqure a town name?

Why, sometimes, are the names of towns, places excluded in books, and instead denoted by a horizontal line?

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