American Notes for General Circulation (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from souloftherose

An enjoyable travelogue of Dickens' experiences in the US and Canada during the six months he and his wife spent there in 1842. As you'd expect from Dickens it's full of his humour and his views on social issues including detailed descriptions of the hospitals, prisons and provision for the poor ...

from jcelrod

A vivid and entertaining account of Charles Dickens's visit to America.

from grundlecat

Fascinating narrative of Dickens' trip to America. This travel book gives all the delicious historical details usually missing from similar works and from novels. You get all the spit, filth, and tortuous travel details (the story of the canal travel is particularly entertaining) as well as his i...

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This marvellous travelogue is Dickens's account of his first visit to the United States from January to June 1842, and the inspiration for the American episode in Martin Chuzzlewit, which otherwise sticks out like a sore thumb in the narrative of that novel. The voyage took nearly three weeks eac...

from AliceAnna

Not as brutal as I thought it might be. Ironically, Mark Twain is much rougher on Americans than Dickens was in this book. Perhaps because Twain was picking on his own ... perhaps because Twain spoke the truth.