American Notes review

In 1842, C. Dickens sailed the ocean blue and landed in America. Then he wrote a book about his journeys, cleverly titled American Notes. This is not a well-read Dickens’ volume. For good reason. Charitably, it is an uneven book. Uncharitably, it is a pointless ramble punctuated with some interesting things here and there. Dickens lands in Boston, heads south to Washington, then west to Cincinnati and the Great Plains, northeast by the Great Lakes into Canada, and then back down to … [Read more...] about Dickens in America