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American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of nineteenth-century America's most celebrated visitors: Charles Dickens. A lively chronicle of his five-month trip around the United States in 1842, the book records the author's adventures journeying by steamboat and stagecoach, as well as his impressions of everything from schools and prisons to table manners and slavery. More than a travelogue, it is also a serious discourse on the character and institutions of a young democracy.
Dickens distrusted much of what he saw, and he wrote so frankly that the New York Herald dismissed the work as "the essence of balderdash." In retrospect, American Notes can be read as the account of a traumatic excursion from which Dickens emerged, both emotionally and politically, a changed man. With a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
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Description and travel, Social life and customs, Travel, History, Juvenile literature, Quotations, Humor, Early works to 1800, Quotations, maxims, Fiction, English Quotations, English Christmas stories, English Novelists, Children, Biography, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Classic Literature, Descriptions et voyages, Dickens, charles, 1812-1870, United states, description and travel, United states, social life and customs, Authors, biography, United states, history, 1815-1861, Large type books, United states, history, Manners and customs, Fiction, general, Journeys, Biography and autobiography, Mœurs et coutumesPeople
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)Places
United States, Great Britain, England, Canada, Italy, Europe, États-UnisTimes
1783-1865, 19th century, 1764-1867, 1783-1848Showing 11 featured editions. View all 181 editions?
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Description of a trip by the famous British novelist Charles Dickens to the U.S. in the early 1840s, which included travel through the Great Lakes states. The first and last portions of the book are accounts of his travel in the east. There are also chapters on slavery and his voyage back to England. Chapter headings for the portion on western travel are:
-From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a western steam-boat. Cincinnati.
-From Cincinnati to Louisville in another western steam-boat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in another. St. Louis.
-A Jaunt to the Looking-glass prairie and back.
-Return to Cincinnati. A stage-coach ride from that city to Columbus, and thence to Sandusky. So, by Lake Erie, to the Falls of Niagara.
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