TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickens,Charles
AU  - Stone,Marcus
TI  - American Notes
AV  - E151 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - United States -- Description and travel
KW  - United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865
KW  - Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Travel -- United States
N1  - 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; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/675
ER  -