London
Twelve-year-old Jack Harkett is a street urchin living on the London docks. So when a merchant ship sails into port at twilight, he recognizes it for what it is: an opportunity. But Jack had never seen a ship quite like this one. Aside from a flock of enormous black bats that flies from its hull, there's only one living soul on board - a young stowaway named Benedict Cole. Jack and the wealthy, educated Ben have little in common. But once Jack hears Ben's hair-raising story of an ill-fated expedition to Mexico - and the strange sickness that has followed him back - the two boys find themselves on the same side of a deadly struggle. With no one to turn to and nothing to rely on but their wits, they face a plague the likes of which London has never seen...
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“I think this be the most villainous house in all London road for fleas.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Unreal city,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“You owe me ten shillings,
Say the bells of St. Helen’s.
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Say the bells of Old Bailey.
When I grow rich,
Say the bells of Shoreditch.
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Say the bells of Stepney.
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Says the great bell of Bow.”
—Unknown. The Bells of London (l. 13–22)