American Notes

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Notes Release date is 1996-10-01

Transcribed from the 1913 Chapman & Hall, Ltd. edition by David Price Transcribed from the 1913 Chapman & Hall, Ltd. edition by David Price

"American Notes" by Charles Dickens is a travelogue published in 1842 detailing his six-month journey through North America. Acting as a critical observer rather than a tourist, Dickens visited cities from Boston to St. Louis, examining prisons, institutions, and society. He praised Boston's beauty and was moved by meeting Laura Bridgman at a school for the blind. However, he sharply criticized slavery, American press sensationalism, public hygiene, and the nation's commercial obsessions, delivering an unflinching analysis of American society's flaws and virtues. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



United States -- Description and travel United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865 Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Travel -- United States

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