Fiction · 1846
Pictures from Italy
A travel book unlike the guidebooks of its day — Rome, Naples, Genoa and the towns between them, observed with a novelist's eye for character and comedy rather than a tourist's obligation to admire the ruins.
Charles Dickens published Pictures from Italy in 1846, following serialization as newspaper travel letters.
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Contents
- The Reader’s Passport
- Going Through France
- Lyons, the Rhone, and the Goblin of Avignon
- Avignon to Genoa
- Genoa and Its Neighbourhood
- To Parma, Modena, and Bologna
- Through Bologna and Ferrara
- An Italian Dream
- By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, Across the Pass of the Simplon Into Switzerland
- To Rome by Pisa and Siena
- Rome
- A Rapid Diorama
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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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