American Notes For General Circulation pdf Summary
When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there – curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank and often humorous descriptions cover everything from his comically wretched sea voyage to his sheer astonishment at the magnificence of the Niagara Falls, while he also visited hospitals, prisons and law courts and found them exemplary. But Dickens’s opinion of America as a land ruled by money, built on slavery, with a corrupt press and unsavoury manners, provoked a hostile reaction on both sides of the Atlantic. American Notes is an illuminating account of a great writer’s revelatory encounter with the New World. In her introduction, Patricia Ingham examines the response the book received when it was published, and compares it with similar travel writings of the period and with Dickens’s fiction, in particular Martin Chuzzlewit. This edition includes an updated chronology, appendices and notes.
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About Charles Dicken Author of American Notes For General Circulation pdf Book
The author of a American Notes For General Circulation pdf Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.
American Notes For General Circulation pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Penguin Classics; Reissue edition (July 1, 2001)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0140436499
- ISBN-13 : 978-0140436495
- Item Weight : 8.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.1 x 0.62 x 7.75 inches
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