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American Notes

Charles Dickens

Acting as a critical observer rather than a tourist, Dickens visited cities from Boston to St. Louis, examining prisons, institutions, and society.

"American Notes" by Charles Dickens is a travelogue. Acting as a critical observer rather than a tourist, Dickens visited cities from Boston to St. Louis, examining prisons, institutions, and society.

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I shall never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the third of January eighteen-hundred-and-forty-two, I opened the door of, and put my head into, a ‘state-room’ on board the Britannia steam-packet, twelve hundred tons burthen per register, bound for Halifax and Boston, and carrying Her Majesty’s mails.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I Going Away
  2. 02Chapter II the Passage Out
  3. 03Chapter III Boston
  4. 04Chapter IV an American Railroad. Lowell and Its Factory System
  5. 05Chapter V Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York
  6. 06Chapter VI New York
  7. 07Chapter VII Philadelphia, and Its Solitary Prison
  8. 08Chapter VIII Washington. The Legislature. And the President’s House
  9. 09Chapter IX 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
  10. 10Chapter X Some Further Account of the Canal Boat, Its Domestic Economy, and Its Passengers. Journey to Pittsburg Across the Alleghany Mountains. Pittsburg
  11. 11Chapter XI from Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a Western Steamboat. Cincinnati
  12. 12Chapter XII from Cincinnati to Louisville in Another Western Steamboat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in Another. St. Louis
  13. 13Chapter XIII a Jaunt to the Looking-Glass Prairie and Back
  14. 14Chapter XIV 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
  15. 15Chapter XV in Canada; Toronto; Kingston; Montreal; Quebec; St. John’s. In the United States Again; Lebanon; the Shaker Village; West Point
  16. 16Chapter XVI the Passage Home
  17. 17Chapter XVII Slavery
  18. 18Chapter XVIII Concluding Remarks
  19. 19Postscript

About this edition

Author
Charles Dickens
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Advanced: for close, demanding reading
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
280 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers