American Notes
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American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of nineteenth-century America's most celebrated 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. More than a travelogue, it is also a serious discourse on the character and institutions of a young democracy. Dickens distrusted much of what he saw, and he wrote so frankly that the New York Herald dismissed the work as 'the...
Chapters (78)
- AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION AND PICTURES FROM ITALY [1]
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST CHEAP EDITION OF “AMERICAN NOTES”
- PREFACE TO THE “CHARLES DICKENS” EDITION OF “AMERICAN NOTES”
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I GOING AWAY
- CHAPTER II THE PASSAGE OUT
- CHAPTER III BOSTON
- CHAPTER IV AN AMERICAN RAILROAD. LOWELL AND ITS FACTORY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER V WORCESTER. THE CONNECTICUT RIVER. HARTFORD. NEW HAVEN. TO NEW YORK
- CHAPTER VI NEW YORK
- CHAPTER VII PHILADELPHIA, AND ITS SOLITARY PRISON
- CHAPTER VIII WASHINGTON. THE LEGISLATURE. AND THE PRESIDENT’S HOUSE
- CHAPTER IX A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE HARRISBURG MAIL, AND A GLIMPSE OF THE CITY. A CANAL BOAT
- CHAPTER X SOME FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CANAL BOAT, ITS DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AND ITS PASSENGERS. JOURNEY TO PITTSBURG ACROSS THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS. PITTSBURG
- CHAPTER XI FROM PITTSBURG TO CINCINNATI IN A WESTERN STEAMBOAT. CINCINNATI
- CHAPTER XII FROM CINCINNATI TO LOUISVILLE IN ANOTHER WESTERN STEAMBOAT; AND FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS IN ANOTHER. ST. LOUIS
- CHAPTER XIII A JAUNT TO THE LOOKING-GLASS PRAIRIE AND BACK
- CHAPTER XIV RETURN TO CINCINNATI. A STAGE-COACH RIDE FROM THAT CITY TO COLUMBUS, AND THENCE TO SANDUSKY. SO, BY LAKE ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA
- CHAPTER XV IN CANADA; TORONTO; KINGSTON; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; ST. JOHN’S. IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN; LEBANON; THE SHAKER VILLAGE; WEST POINT
- CHAPTER XVI THE PASSAGE HOME
- CHAPTER XVII SLAVERY
- CHAPTER XVIII CONCLUDING REMARKS
- POSTSCRIPT
- FOOTNOTES
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