American Notes Annotated eBook Rudyard Kipling
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In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-Indian Imperialist visiting the USA, these American Notes offer an interesting view of America in the 1880s.
Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence, and expresses astonishment at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that made a mockery of American democracy, and while exhibiting the racist attitudes that made him controversial in the 20th century concludes “It is not good to be a negro in the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
G. A. England of Harvard University (letter to The New York Times 10/11/1902) wrote “To the American temperament, the gentleman who throws stones while himself living in a glass house cannot fail to be amusing; the more so if, as in Mr Kipling’s case, he appears to be in a state of maiden innocence regarding the structure of his own domicile.”
American Notes Annotated eBook Rudyard Kipling
As an earlier reviewer noted, this edition is grossly incomplete. It is missing Chapters XIII - XVII of "American Notes" (about 100 pages) and ALL of "Pictures from Italy" (about 200 pages). A warning does appear in place of a copyright page saying that this "reproduction of an original work published before 1923...may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages..." The absence of 300 pages, including the entire "Pictures of Italy," -- though that title appears on the cover and and is listed in the table of contents -- ranks as considerably more than an "imperfection."Product details
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American Notes Annotated eBook Rudyard Kipling Reviews
Charles Dickens is such an excellent writer that even his description of his steamboat passage to America was brought to life such that I was almost there with him.
His descriptions of many American institutions were very detailed and thoughtful and interesting.
I especially was impressed with his scathing discussion of the evils of slavery.
This book is printed from a digital file and then sent to the customer without removing the typos. I tried to work through it, but it is just too distracting. Returning it
Dickens captures the essence of what traveling was like in 19th century America. Interestingly, we have conquered most of the problems he mentions (slavery, poor roads and infrastructure) but Washington continues to be the same. He points out that politicians are so derided and maligned that only the worst type of individual would want to be a politician in Washington. The more things change....
I thought I had read all of Dickens, so was very pleased to find this one. Liked it a lot. Reminded me of Pickwick Papers. Might be his last book, as he died soon after this. Well worth reading and fun.
In 1840, Charles Dickens visited the United States for the first time. His observations are fascinating and entertaining and his take on slavery adds needed perspective to our modern-day discussion of race in America.
I have been waiting to get this book for research into mid-19th century American social history. I have seen quotes from this work often but never had my own copy. It's about time I did.
Charles Dickens left London for America in the cold January of 1842. He left behind several children and such bestsellers as "Pickwick Papers"; "Oliver Twist, "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Nicholas Nickleby."
He and his wife Catherine Hogarth Dickens would journey to the land of their Yankee cousins for six months. This long journey resulted in a short account of the famed novelist's time in the United States.
The passage from Liverpool took 18 days with storms and heavy rain to propel the Britishers forward to the land of the free and home of the brave! Dickens visited several cities. He had good and bad things to say about America. Dickens
a. Visited Boston and New York insane asylums and homes for the indigent.
He also visited prisons. Dickens was a liberal social reformer and thought the treatment of the insane could be improved. He did not think much of American penology believing the prisoners should be worked harder.
b. From the East the Dickens party traveled West. They passed through Louisville, Cincinnati and Sandusky. Dickens complained about pigs in the streets of these burgeoning cities. He thought Americans bold and brassy with an inordinate patriotism manifestly condescending to foreigners.
c. Dickens traveled to St.Louis complaining of the isolated life found in log cabins and the hot temperatures of North America.
d. Dickens disliked the partisan American press; he thought Americans were ruled by mobocracy and often used guns and fisticuffs when they were not necessary!
e. The travel in stage and by train was difficult in this era in the new American nation. Dickens often comments on how miserable he was!
f. Dickens saves his greatest wrath for the abominable practice of chattel slavery in the American South. In his journey to Virginia he comments on how run down the farms and homes were. Like the earlier English visiotr Fanny Trollope he is to be commended for his hatred of slavery which was the curse of American life in the antebellum period.
g. Dickens also hated the American propensity to spit tobacco juice everwhere in sight including the floor of the US House of Representatives and in the Senate Chamber!
Dickens also toured Canada which at that time was ruled by Great Britain. He is much less critical of Canadians!
Dickens is critical in many pages of the book. The book was not liked in America and little read in England. Dickens also was appalled at the lack of copyright law protecting him and English authors from the pirating of their literary efforts. Dickens would write his next novel "Martin Chuzzlewit" in which the hero travels to America only to be greatly disillusioned by this experience.
Dickens returned to America late in life amending some of his earlier harsh views about the 1842 visit. Slavery had been then been abolished.
It should not be forgotten that Dickens was also very critical of society in Great Britain! This greatest of Victorian novelists was a man who believed society needed to improve in education, care for the poor giving people more equitable justice and a higher standard of living. Dickens failed to realize on his 1842 tour that America would take time to grow as a nation and society. Some of his pointed observations, though, such as our love for elections, guns and military titles still stand!
American Notes is dry reading in many places. It is valuable for how a famous author saw America when he and the United States were both young.
As an earlier reviewer noted, this edition is grossly incomplete. It is missing Chapters XIII - XVII of "American Notes" (about 100 pages) and ALL of "Pictures from Italy" (about 200 pages). A warning does appear in place of a copyright page saying that this "reproduction of an original work published before 1923...may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages..." The absence of 300 pages, including the entire "Pictures of Italy," -- though that title appears on the cover and and is listed in the table of contents -- ranks as considerably more than an "imperfection."
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