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A Christmas Carol, the shop windows

Author: Charles Dickens Year: 1843 Length: 246 characters Difficulty: demanding Public domain

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There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe.

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This picture of onions and mistletoe comes from the third stave, where the Ghost of Christmas Present walks Scrooge through the London streets. Dickens finished the book in about six weeks and it went on sale on 19 December 1843. He paid for the production himself, with four hand coloured etchings by John Leech. The full text sits on Project Gutenberg.

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This picture of onions and mistletoe comes from the third stave, where the Ghost of Christmas Present walks Scrooge through the London streets. Dickens finished the book in about six weeks and it went on sale on 19 December 1843. He paid for the production himself, with four hand coloured etchings by John Leech. The full text sits on Project Gutenberg.

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