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This is a scholarly edition, annotated and illustrated, addressing the modern reader. Dickens fans and students will find the most balanced approach to annotate and contextualize the writer's travel impressions, as well as a chronology following Dickens's itinerary chapter by chapter. The text and the appendices are accompanied by 343 explanatory notes.

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The editions carefully chosen illustrations, introduction and extensive footnotes provide a valuable context for todays student. We learn about steam travel by boat, which was then new and hazardous, about the rash of American bank failures in 1837 to which the title (notes for general circulation) alludes, and about the difficulties of emigration in the mid-nineteenth century. These historical themes are supplemented by contemporary illustrations of people and places ranging from the Lowell Mill factory girls to Tremont House in Boston to Niagara FallsThe availability of Archibalds new edition provides a useful text to supplement the social and political context of courses in British and American literature. -- Karen Bourrier, Dickens Quarterly

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is the author of many beloved English-language classics, such as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.

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