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American notes : for general circulation /
Explore nineteenth-century America through the pen of one of the most celebrated authors of all time, Charles Dickens. <i>American Notes</i> is a detailed travelogue of Dickens' 1842 tour of North America, and in it, the author deploys his incisive wit and unparalleled gift for obse...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Auckland, N.Z.] :
Floating Press,
[2009]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title ; 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 Chapter X
- Some Further Account of the Canal Boat, Its Domestic Economy, and Its Passengers Journey to Pittsburg Across the All; 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 thChapter XV
- In Canada; Toronto; Kingston; Montreal; Quebec; St. John's in the United States Again; Lebanon; The Shaker Village; ; Chapter XVI
- The Passage Home; Chapter XVII
- Slavery; Chapter XVIII
- Concluding Remarks; Postscript; Endnotes.