品牌：Charles Dickens
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：368 页码
·出版日：2001年
·ISBN：0140436499
·条码：9780140436495
·装帧：平装
内容简介
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When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank and often humorous descriptions cover everything from his comically wretched sea voyage to his sheer astonishment at the magnificence of the Niagara Falls, while he also visited hospitals, prisons and law courts and found them exemplary. But Dickens's opinion of America as a land ruled by money, partly built on slavery, with a corrupt press and unsavoury manners, provoked a hostile reaction on both sides of the Atlantic. American Notes is an illuminating account of a great writer's revelatory encounter with the New World.
作者简介
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, and grew up in poverty, one of eight children. He became the preeminent writer of Victorian England, with most of his novels appearing in serial form before being published as books.
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"I have made up my mind (with God's leave) to go to America--and to start as soon after Christmas as it will be safe"So wrote an exuberant Dickens shortly before his voyage to America in 1842. He was the most famous of many travellers of his time who journeyed to the New World, curious to find out about the revolutionary new civilization which had captured the English imagination. His frank, often humorous descriptions cover everything from his comically uncomfortable sea voyage to his wonder at the Niagara Falls. In general, Dickens is critical of what he saw as a society ruled by money and built on slavery, with unsavoury manners and a corrupt press. His unfavourable account provoked a hostile response in America and Britain, although he was to change his opinion later."American Notes" can be read as a journey in the long-established tradition of Chaucer, Bunyan and Swift --as a progress to knowledge through varied experiences. Above all, it is a fascinating account of what was for Dickens an illuminating encounter with the New World.This edition includes a critical introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and three appendices reflecting Dickens's changing views on America.For more titles in the Penguin Classics range, visit Amazon.co.uk's Penguin Classics Bookstore.
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