Are we quite sure that we in England have not formed our ideas of the ‘station’ of working people from accustoming ourselves to the contemplation of that class as they are, and not as they might be?

Charles Dickens (American Notes)

Чарльз Джон Хаффем Диккенс — английский писатель, романист и очеркист. Самый популярный англоязычный писатель при жизни. Классик мировой литературы, один из крупнейших прозаиков XIX века.

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.

‎‎Американские записки — ‎рассказы‎‎ ‎‎Чарльза Диккенса‎‎ о поездке в Северную Америку с января по июнь 1842, где он записывал свои критические наблюдения об развитии общества. ‎

American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of North American society, almost as if returning a status report on their progress. This can be compared to the style of his Pictures from Italy written four years later, where he wrote far more like a tourist.