Exploration & Journeys
American Notes
Charles Dickens
2026
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He arrived in 1842 as the most famous writer alive and left having offended nearly everyone. Dickens admired the American energy and loathed most of the rest: the tobacco spitting, the pirating of his work, the newspapers, and above all the slavery he refused to describe politely. His hosts never quite forgave him.
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20 chapters
- 1Dedication and Prefaces4m
- 2Section 220m
- 3The Passage Out34m
- 4Boston, part one50m
- 5Boston, part two40m
- 6An American Railroad. Lowell and its Factory System21m
- 7Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York20m
- 8New York41m
- 9Philadelphia, and its Solitary Prison36m
- 10Washington. The Legislature. And the President’s House39m
- 11A 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 Boat40m
- 12Some further Account of the Canal Boat, its Domestic Economy, and its Passengers. Journey to Pittsburg across the Alleghany Mountains. Pittsburg24m
- 13From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a Western Steamboat. Cincinnati22m
- 14From Cincinnati to Louisville in another Western Steamboat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in another. St. Louis27m
- 15A Jaunt to the Looking-glass Prairie and back19m
- 16Return to Cincinnati. A Stage-coach Ride from that City to Columbus, and thence to Sandusky. So, by Lake Erie, to the Falls of Niagara38m
- 17In Canada; Toronto; Kingston; Montreal; Quebec; St. John’s. In the United States again; Lebanon; The Shaker Village; West Point43m
- 18The Passage Home19m
- 19Slavery35m
- 20Concluding Remarks - Postscript25m
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