American Notes And Pictures From Italy

American Notes was the result of the authors five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickenss 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 colourful account of a tour made in 1844.This collectable series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings many of which appeared in the first editons of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition revised by the author in the 1860s.