American NotesCharles Dickens
American Notes
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Original author: Charles Dickens
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"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.
American Notes, by Charles Dickens. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #675.
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21 Chapters
- 1.Preface: To the First Cheap Edition of “american Notes”288 words
- 2.Preface: To the “charles Dickens” Edition of “american Notes”457 words
- 3.Chapter I: Going Away3,249 words
- 4.Chapter II: The Passage Out5,973 words
- 5.Chapter III: Boston (1)8,873 words
- 6.Chapter III: Boston (2)6,249 words
- 7.Chapter IV: An American Railroad. Lowell and Its Factory System3,574 words
- 8.Chapter V: Worcester. the Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. to New York3,358 words
- 9.Chapter VI: New York6,927 words
- 10.Chapter VII: Philadelphia, and Its Solitary Prison6,362 words
- 11.Chapter VIII: Washington. the Legislature. and the President’s House6,528 words
- 12.Chapter IX6,760 words
- 13.Chapter X4,338 words
- 14.Chapter XI: From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a Western Steamboat. Cincinnati3,613 words
- 15.Chapter XII4,594 words
- 16.Chapter XIII: A Jaunt to the Looking-Glass Prairie and Back3,183 words
- 17.Chapter XIV6,807 words
- 18.Chapter XV7,362 words
- 19.Chapter XVI: The Passage Home3,352 words
- 20.Chapter XVII: Slavery5,812 words
- 21.Chapter XVIII: Concluding Remarks4,275 words