 | Aidan Cruttenden - 2003 - 104 pages
...well as the direct experience necessary to describe industrial scenes convincingly: 'lt [Coketown] was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have...interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. lt had a THE SOCIAL PROBLEM NOVEL In his book Past and Present... | |
 | Paul A. Olson - 2002 - 398 pages
...brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stcxxl it was a town of unnatural red and black like the...interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in ir, and a river that ran purpose... | |
 | Jack M. Hollander - 2003 - 256 pages
...description of the fictional city of Coketown, based on actual industrial cities of Dickens's time: It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would...interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple... | |
 | George Baird - 1995 - 428 pages
...nineteenth-century architecture and planning. Coketown, you may recall, Dickens describes as "a triumph of fact." It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would...like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinen' and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever... | |
 | John P. Bequette - 2004 - 184 pages
...the dreary industrial city of Coketown. He describes Coketown in a depressingly picturesque manner: It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would...never got uncoiled It had a black canal in it, and river that ran purple with illsmelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there... | |
 | Gérard Peylet - 2005 - 504 pages
...monotony and anonymity, as Dickens's famous description of Coketown (Preston) in Hard Times suggests : It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would...interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple... | |
 | Martin Middeke - 2004 - 372 pages
...of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but, äs matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black...interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2004 - 1354 pages
...may cut the piece out with your penknife if you like, Tom. I wouldn't cry!' CHAPTER 5 The Key-Note Coketown, to which Messrs Bounderby and Gradgrind...interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple... | |
 | Jacqueline Nassy Brown - 2009 - 321 pages
...was etched in Charles Dickens's depiction of Coketown (based on Preston, Lancashire) in Hard Times: It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would...interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple... | |
 | M. Antonietta Vidori, Giuseppe De Benedittis - 2005 - 100 pages
...pursuing our tune. It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red // the smoke and the ashes had allowed it; but, as matters stood it was...interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple... | |
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It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out... 
