Character
The Narrator’s Brother
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
Through him, London’s panic becomes a second witness account of social collapse.
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Place
Serpentine Avenue
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
A calm street that Holmes fills with fake chaos to trick Irene Adler.
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Passage
Mr. Jaggers’s Dismal Room
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Pip senses that behind this office's silence lurks danger, judgment, and hidden power.
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Passage
Becky's Crowded Parties
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Becky turns a tiny house into a triumph, but how long can glitter hide ambition?
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Place
Harley Street
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
In a fashionable London room, family love matters less than money and rank.
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Place
London
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
A fogged, watchful city where banks, courts, and guarded homes keep their secrets.
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Passage
Desolation of Jacobs Island
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Who would choose a refuge so vile, unless desperation or guilt left none?
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Place
Covent Garden / St. Paul’s Church Portico
Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw
A rainstorm crowds gentry and flower girl together, and one man is listening to every accent.
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Place
No. 7 Saville Row
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
A house run to the minute, one silent master, and a servant who thought he had finally found rest.
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Place
London streets
King Richard III, William Shakespeare
A public road where mourning, fear, and murder plots pass each other in broad daylight.
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Place
The by-street of shops
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Bright shop fronts line the street until one neglected door breaks the row like a stain.
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Place
Harley Street
North and South, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A comfortable London drawing room, sealed off from the trouble that will soon find Margaret.
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Place
221B Baker Street
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
A visitor's forgotten walking stick turns a quiet breakfast room into the first puzzle to solve.
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Place
London
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
A polished city where drawing rooms, locked doors, dinner tables, and opium dens are all the same place.
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Passage
One of the Dark Places
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Marlow's quiet remark turns empire's pride into a warning about civilized darkness.
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Place
Gracechurch Street
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The relatives in trade turn out to be the ones who save the family from ruin.
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Place
Piccadilly House
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Behind a fashionable London address, the hunters find another box of grave-earth waiting.
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Place
Number 305 Park Lane
The Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope
A comfortable London home where a well-bred idler is prodded to do something with his life.
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Place
London
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas, père
Across the Channel wait the missing pieces of a French queen's ruined reputation.
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Place
Kensington Gardens
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
A great Newfoundland dog minds the prams here as if every child in the park were hers.
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Place
Brunswick Square
Emma, Jane Austen
The London home where Emma's sister is close in love but well out of daily reach.
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Passage
Amy’s Voyage Letter
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Amy's first taste of Europe thrills her, but homesickness and comparison linger underneath.
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Passage
The Dawn of Panic
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
Before sunrise, an entire city wakes to danger it cannot yet understand.
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Place
The Serpentine, Hyde Park
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
A bride's clothes turn up by a park lake, telling a story that never happened.
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Passage
The First of My Great Expectations
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Pip's longed for fortune arrives, and instantly feels like a bitter mistake.
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Place
Curzon Street
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Becky runs a fashionable house on charm and unpaid bills, and it cannot last.
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Place
London
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Here what the sisters only suspected at home becomes public, and painfully certain.
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Place
Old Bailey
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
In this London court, one man's face decides whether another man hangs.
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Passage
The Cry of Stop Thief
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
A terrified child runs from a furious accusation he may not deserve.
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Place
Higgins’s Laboratory / 27A Wimpole Street
Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw
In a respectable London room, a girl's speech is measured, corrected, and remade into a problem no one planned for.
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