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American Notes for General Circulation

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By Charles Dickens
Edited by Patricia Ingham

By Charles Dickens
Edited by Patricia Ingham

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Jul 01, 2001 | ISBN 9780140436495

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About American Notes for General Circulation

A fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens’s characteristic wit and charm

When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there – curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank and often humorous descriptions cover everything from his comically wretched sea voyage to his sheer astonishment at the magnificence of the Niagara Falls, while he also visited hospitals, prisons and law courts and found them exemplary. But Dickens’s opinion of America as a land ruled by money, built on slavery, with a corrupt press and unsavoury manners, provoked a hostile reaction on both sides of the Atlantic. American Notes is an illuminating account of a great writer’s revelatory encounter with the New World. In her introduction, Patricia Ingham examines the response the book received when it was published, and compares it with similar travel writings of the period and with Dickens’s fiction, in particular Martin Chuzzlewit. This edition includes an updated chronology, appendices and notes. 

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About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

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Category: Travel: USA & Canada | Nonfiction Classics | Travel Writing | 19th Century U.S. History

Paperback | $18.00
Published by Penguin Classics
Jul 01, 2001 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9780140436495

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Table Of Contents

Edited by Patricia Ingham

Acknowledgments
A Dickens Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Text
Map

AMERICAN NOTES

Appendix I: Dickens’s Unpublished Introduction of 1842
Appendix II: Dickens’s Preface of 1850
Appendix III: Dickens’s Postscript of 1868

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