Theme: urban life
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urban Isolation
I came to Baker Street by the Underground and hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this snow. That is why I was so out of breath...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urban Mysteries
I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one”—he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Trust and Suspicion
“‘In my own bureau.’ “‘Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night.’ said he. When I was a youngster I have opened it myself ...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Duty
Bennet thought it possible they might have gone to one of them, on their first coming to London, before they procured lodgings. Gardiner himself did n...
The War of the Worlds / Urban Isolation
I was weary after eating, and went into the parlour behind the bar, and slept on a black horsehair sofa I found there. I awoke to find that dismal how...
The War of the Worlds / Monotony of Existence
All these—the sort of people that lived in these houses, and all those damn little clerks that used to live down _that_ way—they’d be no good. They ha...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Dusk at Baker Street
It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine Avenue. It was ...
The War of the Worlds / Signal Lights
My wife pointed out to me the brightness of the red, green, and yellow signal lights hanging in a framework against the sky. It was seen early in the ...
The War of the Worlds / Thames and Labor
“We can dig better on this Thames-side burgundy,” said I. Let us take a rest and gather strength while we may.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Identity Transformation
He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings tr...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urban Decay
Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of London Bridge. Between a slop...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urban Deception
Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Telegrams Impact
Now, by the merest chance, his wife received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his departure, to the effect that a small parcel of ...