As-new, from this beautifully produced set, a virtually mint copy in an unclipped dust jacket. 8vo (5 x 7.5 inches; illustrated with black and white drawings throughout).

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Title

AMERICAN NOTES & PICTURES FROM ITALY -THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED DICKENS-

Publisher

Oxford University Press, New York

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

0192545191

ISBN 13

9780192545190

Binding

Hardcover in Dust Jacket

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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"American Notes" was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's 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.

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Dickens went to America in 1842 expecting to find a brave new world whose institutions embodied his own political views. The Americans expected him to extol their new nation. Dickens, however, became deeply disturbed by American culture. American Notes attempts to portray fairly the young Republic's new cities, strange landscapes and bustling people, but is coloured by Dicken's doubts about the failings of democratic politics in an egalitarian society.

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