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American Notes for General Circulation

Name: American Notes for General Circulation
Author: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Read by Alisson Veldhuis, bobolink, EliMarieHK, Denny Sayers (d. 2015), Ric Cornwall, Guero and Tom Crawford · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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00 - Preface (4:03)
01 - Chapter 1: Going Away (20:22)
02 - Chapter 2: The Passage Out (40:00)
03 - Chapter 3: Boston Part 1 (41:15)
04 - Chapter 3: Boston Part 2 (40:10)
05 - Chapter 3: Boston Part 3 (19:53)
06 - Chapter 4: An American Railroad. Lowell and its Factory System (28:32)
07 - Chapter 5: Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York (26:02)
08 - Chapter 6: New York (53:20)
09 - Chapter 7: Philadelphia, and its Solitary Prison (35:32)
10 - Chapter 8: Washington. The Legislature. And the President's House (44:24)
11 - Chapter 9: A Night Steamer on the Potomac River. Virginia Road, and a Black Driver. Richmond. Baltimore. The Harrisburg Mail, and a Glimpse of the City. A Canal Boat. (41:33)
12 - Chapter 10: Some Further Account of the Canal Boat, its Domestic Economy, and its Passengers. Journey to Pittsburg Across the Alleghany Mountains. Pittsburg. (24:43)
13 - Chapter 11: From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a Western Steamboat. Cincinnati. (24:11)
14 - Chapter 12: From Cincinnati to Louisville in another Western Steamboat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in another. St. Louis. (26:53)
15 - Chapter 13: A Jaunt to the Looking-Glass Prairie and Back (19:35)
16 - Chapter 14: Return to Cincinnati. A Stage-Coach Ride from that City to Columbus, and thence to Sandusky. So, by Lake Erie, to the Falls of Niagara (40:33)
17 - Chapter 15: In Canadal; Toronto; Kingston; Monstreal; Quebec; St. John's. In the United States again. Lebanon; the Shaker Village; West Point (47:38)
18 - Chapter 16: The Passage Home (24:33)
19 - Chapter 17: Slavery (39:06)
20 - Chapter 18: Concluding Remarks (24:34)
21 - Postscript (4:58)