American Notes (Green Integer) [Paperback]

Charles Dickens (Author)

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Publication Date: March 15, 2011 | ISBN-10: 1933382554 | ISBN-13: 978-1933382555

Written in response to Charles Dickens’ travels in the United States in 1842, American Notes is a fascinating and often highly critical portrait of the young American nation. Dickens touches on subjects as diverse as Wall Street, the American prison system, slavery, and the American press.

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American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of 19th century America's most celebrated tourists--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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 476 pages
• Publisher: Green Integer (March 15, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933382554
• ISBN-13: 978-1933382555
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,193,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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One of the grand masters of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

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5 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars American Notes For General Circulation, September 2, 2007

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William C. Ludwig (Reamstown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: American Notes For General Circulation (Paperback)

I received the book and as I was reading it, it fell apart.

I reported this to Amazon and received another copy of American Notes.

I returned the original copy. As I was reading the second copy with

care so the same thing wouldn't happen,some pages fell out of it also.

Poor quality by Quiet Vision Publishing.