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American Notes for General Circulation

American Notes for General Circulation

by Charles Dickens

*Non-fictionTravel & Geography
22 chapters 11h 11m English 1842

About this book

American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of these societies almost as if returning a status report on their progress. This can be compared to the style of his Pictures from Italy written four years later, where he wrote far more like a tourist. His American journey was also an inspiration for his novel Martin Chuzzlewit. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Chapters (21)

1 01 - Chapter 1: Going Away
20:22
2 02 - Chapter 2: The Passage Out
40:00
3 03 - Chapter 3: Boston Part 1
41:15
4 04 - Chapter 3: Boston Part 2
40:10
5 05 - Chapter 3: Boston Part 3
19:53
6 06 - Chapter 4: An American Railroad. Lowell and its Factory System
28:32
7 07 - Chapter 5: Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York
26:02
8 08 - Chapter 6: New York
53:20
9 09 - Chapter 7: Philadelphia, and its Solitary Prison
35:32
10 10 - Chapter 8: Washington. The Legislature. And the President's House
44:24
11 11 - Chapter 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.
41:33
12 12 - Chapter 10: Some Further Account of the Canal Boat, its Domestic Economy, and its Passengers. Journey to Pittsburg Across the Alleghany Mountains. Pittsburg.
24:43
13 13 - Chapter 11: From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a Western Steamboat. Cincinnati.
24:11
14 14 - Chapter 12: From Cincinnati to Louisville in another Western Steamboat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in another. St. Louis.
26:53
15 15 - Chapter 13: A Jaunt to the Looking-Glass Prairie and Back
19:35
16 16 - Chapter 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 Niagara
40:33
17 17 - Chapter 15: In Canadal; Toronto; Kingston; Monstreal; Quebec; St. John's. In the United States again. Lebanon; the Shaker Village; West Point
47:38
18 18 - Chapter 16: The Passage Home
24:33
19 19 - Chapter 17: Slavery
39:06
20 20 - Chapter 18: Concluding Remarks
24:34
21 21 - Postscript
4:58

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