Exeter College in Fiction

On Monday we went to visit Exeter College located in the city of Oxford. Our first impressions when we entered were that it was, stunning, and we were amazed by its beauty. Once we started walking around the quad we found ourselves traveling back in time, because of its gothic architecture and stained glasses. 

   We were fortunate to visit the building during a sunny day and appreciate the wide variety of colours and details, but add some rain and it turns into a perfect, magical place for fiction. Therefore we've decided to talk about the different fitcional roles Exeter College has played or inspired throughout history.

   For example, there's a detective novel, later turned into a TV programme called: Inspector Morse carried out in Oxford City. In "The Remorseful Day" episode we can see the inspector collapsing in the College's quad.

   Philip Pullman's novel "His Dark Materials" created a fictional institution called Jordan College, which was inspired by Exeter College. Years after this novel was published, it was made into the well known film named "The Golden Compass"

   To conclude, Oxford has been in 533 novels.