Physical description

American Notes and Reprinted Pieces.
Author: Charles Dickens.
Publisher: Chapman & Hall Ltd, London.
Date: 1913. (See note section this document for more information on Edition).
Green leather hardcover with title on spine in gold lettering, Charles Dickens signature on front cover written in gold lettering. The spine has a Library label and no Volume information.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on spine cover with typed text PAT 823.8 DIC
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service.
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Inside the front loose end paper has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute.

Summary

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was one of the great English novelists of the Victorian era, famous for vivid characters, social criticism, and stories that were first published in serial form. He began as a journalist, rose to enormous popularity during his lifetime, and wrote major works such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
Dickens wrote “American Notes” for general circulation, it is Dickens’s travel account of his 1842 trip through the United States and Canada, written as a sequence of observations on travel, cities, institutions, and society in general. It includes chapters on the voyage to America visiting Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington. The American railway and steamboat systems, Canada, and a concluding chapter on slavery. The “Reprinted Pieces” part of the book is a companion gathering of shorter Dickens items, so the subject volume is not just a travel book but a collected volume pairing it with miscellaneous prose.