Works (American Notes / Pictures from Italy)

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American Notes was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as "honest and true" was regarded in America as "a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism", the product of "the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial" writer ever to visit the country. Pictures from Italy is a colorful account of a tour made in 1844. - Jacket flap.

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3.6/5 · 86 readers · 521 pages · ≈ 9 h 39 m · Demanding

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The main characters include Charles Dickens (1812-1870).

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It is set in United States, Italy, Canada during 1783-1865, 19th century.

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Charles Dickens.

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Setting United StatesItalyCanada Time period 1783-186519th century Characters Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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