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050 4 _aE151
100 1 _aDickens, Charles,
_d1812-1870
245 1 0 _aAmerican Notes
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c1996
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Notes
500 _aRelease date is 1996-10-01
508 _aTranscribed from the 1913 Chapman & Hall, Ltd. edition by David Price
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aUnited States -- Description and travel
653 _aUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865
653 _aDickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Travel -- United States
700 1 _aStone, Marcus,
_d1840-1921
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/675
999 _c42796
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