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Includes an introduction, over eighty illustrations, and annotations that explain literary, autobiographical, and historical aspects of the text.

A detailed history of two disasters that befell London, England: The Great Plague of 1665 in which it is estimated that at least 70,000 died, and the Great Fire of 1666, which destroyed four-fifths of the city.

Fifty-three-year-old Charles Dickens, having escaped death during a train accident, momentarily meets a ghoulish figure named Drood and sets out with his friend Wilkie Collins into the nightmarish world of the slums and catacombs of London to uncover the mystery surrounding the figure.

In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.

Henry Higgins attempts to turn Eliza Doolittle, a poor, young beggar, into a lady of society by teaching her proper language skills and better manners.

Presents a history of the Tower of London, from its beginning as a fortification, as a prison and holding place before executions during the Middle Ages and to the present day, in which it a tourist attraction housing the crown jewels and used for ceremonial purposes.

A goose named Willoughby visits London, meets a friendly actor-playwright named Shakespeare, and helps make literary history.

An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's story in which a kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation.

In London, England, twelve-year-old Joe discovers that his grandmother is not just physically repulsive and horribly mean, she is also involved in an evil plot against him, but the adults around them fail to see behind her mask.

An adapatation of Charles Dickens's story in which a young Englishman determines to do his utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine in the early days of the French Revolution.

Sara Crewe, a wealthy girl attending a boarding school in London, is banished to the attic and made the servant of the cruel headmistress after her father dies penniless, but with help from a secret friend, her life changes in wonderful ways.

Soon after she, her mother, and her younger brother move into an old house on what was once known as Beggarsgate, Emily begins to have terrifyingly real glimpses of scenes of seventeenth-century London devastated by the plague.

Hannah and Sarah escape London, leaving behind plague and death as well as their sweets shop, and when it is safe, Hannah and her younger sister Anne return, only to face the city's Great Fire of 1666.

As Christmas approaches, Lucy, a ten-year-old orphan living on the streets of London, is overjoyed to be given the job of sewing hearts for the dolls in ThimbleBee's Doll Shop.

Fourteen-year-old Alem Kelo adjusts to life as a foster child seeking asylum in London, while his Eritrean mother and Ethiopian father work for peace between their homelands in Africa.