America

This is hard to rate as I read it more as a historical source than a work of literature but it was historically fascinating (as well as including some strong passages of Dickens's wonderful writing).

On 3rd January 1842 Charles Dickens, just a month away from his 30th birthday, started on his tour of America. Accompanied by his wife Catherine, her maid Anne Brown and nearly 80 others, he sailed from Liverpool on the steamship “RMS Britannica” , commissioned just two years earlier. Dickens already Leggi tutto

Un libro casi “desconocido “ en la gran producción de el autor. 📇En el Dickens nos lleva con él donde quiera que fuera. Entre otros lugares visitamos Nueva York,Filadelfia,Washington,Pittsburg,Saint Lluïsa,Canadá y hasta las Cataratas del Niagara. Somos un viajero más en el barco,el ferrocarril,la dili Leggi tutto

I'm going to start by saying I don't recommend this book for anyone who has to read is for a school course. Books like this should never be read under duress. Also, if you read this book, I recommend saving the introductory matter for last and beginning with Dickens' narrative. Although he was a best Leggi tutto

In January of 1842, Charles Dickens came to the United States with his wife and a small contingent to tour through the settled areas, some of eastern Canada and gather a picture of his American public. In return he wrote this book, a piece of travel writing, with diversions into areas of his persona Leggi tutto

Charles Dickens, in my opinion, is a severely overrated, rather self-important and self-righteous bore. So I don't like most of this books. This time, though, while he's still a self-important and self-righteous bore whose sense of humour essentially is based entirely on the assumption that the rest Leggi tutto