Download Innocent Abroad by Jerome Meckier - mirror 1 ---> http://po.st/XzfFzL mirror 2 ---> http://tinyurl.com/q44p23e mirror 3 --> http://q.gs/9283027/innocent-abroad ---------------
Synopsis: In 1842, Victorian England's foremost novelist visited America, naively expecting both a return to Eden and an ideal republic that would demonstrate progress as a natural law. Instead, Charles Dickens suffered a traumatic disappointment that darkened his vision of society and human nature for the remainder of his career. His second tour, in 1867-68, ostensibly successful, proved no antidote for the first.
Using new materials -- letters, diaries, and publishers' records -- Jerome Meckier enumerates the reasons for the failure of Dickens's American tours. During the first, an informal conspi
