American Notes and Pictures From Italy (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)

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"The amusing notes and subsequent literary renditions of Dickens from his travels to the States and to Italy around the middle of the 19th century. He is (obviously) an excellent writer with a sense of humor and a vision, and the books read well. I also kinda like this oldish English with its weird and unnecessarily complex, long sentences... which is funny, because precisely for the same reason I often loathe to read the kind of academic text where you can see that the writer has almost delibera"