american notes and pictures from italy - the oxford illustrated dickens
by dickens, charles
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0192545191
- ISBN 13
- 9780192545190
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1565710
- Title
- american notes and pictures from italy - the oxford illustrated dickens
- Author
- dickens, charles
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0192545191
- ISBN 13
- 9780192545190
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, England
- This edition first published
- October 22, 1987
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