Exploration & Journeys
American Notes for General Circulation
Charles Dickens
2026
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Solitary confinement, he decided, was crueller than the lash. Dickens toured the model prisons, factories and asylums of 1842 America with a reporter's eye and a novelist's temper, and went home to write a travel account so blunt about slavery and national self-congratulation that his hosts read it as a betrayal.
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22 chapters
- 1Preface4m
- 2Chapter 1: Going Away20m
- 3Chapter 2: The Passage Out40m
- 4Chapter 3: Boston Part 141m
- 5Chapter 3: Boston Part 240m
- 6Chapter 3: Boston Part 320m
- 7Chapter 4: An American Railroad. Lowell and its Factory System29m
- 8Chapter 5: Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York26m
- 9Chapter 6: New York53m
- 10Chapter 7: Philadelphia, and its Solitary Prison36m
- 11Chapter 8: Washington. The Legislature. And the President's House44m
- 12Chapter 9: 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.42m
- 13Chapter 10: Some Further Account of the Canal Boat, its Domestic Economy, and its Passengers. Journey to Pittsburg Across the Alleghany Mountains. Pittsburg.25m
- 14Chapter 11: From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a Western Steamboat. Cincinnati.24m
- 15Chapter 12: From Cincinnati to Louisville in another Western Steamboat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in another. St. Louis.27m
- 16Chapter 13: A Jaunt to the Looking-Glass Prairie and Back20m
- 17Chapter 14: Return to Cincinnati. A Stage-Coach Ride from that City to Columbus, and thence to Sandusky. So, by Lake Erie, to the Falls of Niagara41m
- 18Chapter 15: In Canadal; Toronto; Kingston; Monstreal; Quebec; St. John's. In the United States again. Lebanon; the Shaker Village; West Point48m
- 19Chapter 16: The Passage Home25m
- 20Chapter 17: Slavery39m
- 21Chapter 18: Concluding Remarks25m
- 22Postscript5m
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