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"On every side, and far as the eye could see into the heavy distance, tall chimneys, crowding on each other, and presenting that endless repetition of the same dull, ugly, form, which is the horror of oppressive dreams, poured out their plague of smoke, obscured the light, and made foul the melancholy air." (p.335)
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"Dickens has often been censured by serious critics for failing to create individuals with the depth of George Eliot's and Conrad's, or for bringing in unnecessary new characters to revive a flagging plot, but what does that matter to ordinary readers when Dickens can generate a whole world and populate it at will for our pleasure?" (from the introduction by Peter Washington)
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