Nonfiction · 1842
American Notes
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Contents
- Preface to the First Cheap Edition of “American Notes”
- Preface to the “Charles Dickens” Edition of “American Notes”
- 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
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About the author
1812–1870 · Victorian
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born at Portsmouth and worked as a child in a blacking factory while his father was imprisoned for debt — an experience he drew on for the rest of his life. A parliamentary reporter by twenty, he became the most popular novelist in English with The Pickwick Papers (1836–37) and never lost that place: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861) followed. He died at Gad’s Hill, Kent.
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