Charles Dickens

American Notes

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780140436495
• ISBN-10: 0140436499
• Artikelnr.: 21609472

Autorenporträt

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. He is considered one of the greatest novelists in the English language. Patricia Ingham is Fellow of St Anne's College, Reader in English, and The Times Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Edited by Patricia Ingham
Acknowledgments
A Dickens Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Text
Map
AMERICAN NOTES
Appendix I: Dickens's Unpublished Introduction of 1842
Appendix II: Dickens's Preface of 1850
Appendix III: Dickens's Postscript of 1868