American Notes: A Journey In 1842, the well established author, Charles Dickens toured the United States of America and wrote down an account of his journey within a young democratic nation. He published this account and called it American Notes: A Journey. The purpose of the book was to give an account of America to the British public. From the very start of the journey, Dickens was speaking in the voice of a traveller whose thriving …showed first 75 words of 2150 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2150 total…to things and situations of daily life that were normal during the 1840s, but not in our age. The author is a well established and qualified writer, but his eccentric style does not suit the type of book that would have stood the test of time. If the book was a factual and indifferent account of America it would have people referring to it time and time again, but it contains to much useless information.