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Quotation from Hard Times by Charles Dickens
“It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it”
Hard Times, Book the First, Chapter V (Project Gutenberg #786 text)
The opening of the famous description of Coketown, with its tall chimneys, purple river, and identical streets.
Citation: "It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it" — Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book the First, Chapter V (Project Gutenberg #786 text). (id hard-times-q2)
Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.
