American Notes

11 hrs. 26 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Charles Dickens

Narrator Valentin Morozov

Description

Two volumes of “American Notes” were published in October 1842. The material for the “Notes” came from diaries and notebooks. Work on the book took several months, carried out immediately after returning home. The trip to the United States deeply disappointed Dickens. That feeling permeates the book itself, which was released with a dedication: “…to some of my friends in America… who, for whom love of the homeland does not prevent them from listening to the truth…”
In the press, “American Notes” were received with outrage. American criticism expected Dickens to deliver an enthusiastic panegyric—and, not finding it, accused the writer of slander. English criticism was also bewildered by Dickens’s new—at least for Dickens—tones of political satire, and reacted to the book unfavorably.