london (england)

Provides information on the Tower of London, its history as a prison and a home to kings and queens of England. how the tower was built, the customs and traditions of people who lived there, and a description of its major sites.

Mary Saunders, daughter of a poor seamstress and a father who died in jail, allows her desire for fine things to lead her into prostitution at a young age, and though she tries repeatedly to turn her life around, the lure of money and freedom proves difficult to resist.

Winifred Rudge travels to London to jump-start her new novel, but instead she finds herself investigating the disappearance of her stepcousin, whose apartment seems to have been taken over by a hostile spirit.

Janet records her trials and tribulations in her diary, including how she finds a summer job, the changes in her mother and best friend as they fall in love, and how she approaches her own seventeenth birthday.

Will, a thirty-six-year-old London bachelor, undergoes a change in his outlook about marriage and children when he lies to join a single parents group in order to meet women, and becomes friends with a needy twelve-year-old named Marcus.

In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

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.

Uses historical fact and the author's own impressions to describe what the Globe Theatre would have been like when Shakespeare's plays were first performed.

Tells the story of the devastating fire that leveled London in 1666, based on firsthand accounts of people who survived the blaze, discusses the reasons why many Londoners believed the fire was a judgment from God, and speculates about the origins of the conflagration.

Dr. Maya Witherspoon, the daughter of a British physician and a Brahmin woman, flees her home in India following the mysterious deaths of her parents in 1909, and sets up practice among the poor of London, but she knows she must find a way to develop the magical powers she inherited from her parents in order to stop the evil that stalks her.