American Notes
Subtitle: for General Circulation
Publisher: E-Classics
Published: September 6, 2001
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9780141881089
Subjects: Literature: Texts
First sentence: I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the third of January eighteen-hundred-and-forty-two, I opened the door of, and put my head into, 'state-room' on board the Britannia steam-packet, twelve hundred tons burthen per register, bound for Halifax and Boston, and carrying Her Majesty's mails.