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American Notes

di Charles Dickens · 22 parti · about 8 hours 32 minutes di lettura

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Charles Dickens venne in America come giovane e famoso scrittore, desideroso di amare la nuova repubblica. Attraversò in piroscafo nel 1842 e viaggiò in treno, in battello sui canali e in battello a vapore da Boston giù a Richmond e a ovest fino a St. Louis. Trovò molto da lodare e molto da biasimare, e disse entrambe le cose ad alta voce, finendo con un duro capitolo sulla schiavitù. È un libro di viaggio tagliente, divertente e onesto, di un uomo che guardava tutto.

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Capitoli

Dedication1 min Preface to the First Cheap Edition of “American Notes”1 min Preface to the “Charles Dickens” Edition of “American Notes”1 min Chapter 1: Going Away16 min Chapter 2: The Passage Out30 min Chapter 3: Boston76 min Chapter 4: An American Railroad. Lowell and Its Factory System18 min Chapter 5: Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York17 min Chapter 6: New York35 min Chapter 7: Philadelphia, and Its Solitary Prison32 min Chapter 8: Washington. The Legislature. And the President’s House33 min 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 Boat34 min Chapter 10: Some Further Account of the Canal Boat, Its Domestic Economy, and Its Passengers. Journey to Pittsburg Across the Alleghany Mountains. Pittsburg22 min Chapter 11: From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a Western Steamboat. Cincinnati18 min Chapter 12: From Cincinnati to Louisville in Another Western Steamboat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in Another. St. Louis23 min Chapter 13: A Jaunt to the Looking-Glass Prairie and Back16 min 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 Niagara34 min Chapter 15: In Canada; Toronto; Kingston; Montreal; Quebec; St. John’s. In the United States Again; Lebanon; the Shaker Village; West Point37 min Chapter 16: The Passage Home17 min Chapter 17: Slavery31 min Chapter 18: Concluding Remarks17 min Postscript3 min