An opportune meeting with a pickpocket and a pupil from a charity school sets events in motion that drastically and irrevocably change the lives of an orphaned brother and sister existing by their wits in the streets of London.
A young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London takes a document he cannot read from a man's pocket and a moment later sees the man murdered by two men who want the paper.
An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.
