India celebrates 200 years of Charles Dickens

India celebrates 200 years of Charles Dickens New Delhi: He gave us Uriah Heep in "David Copperfield", the Artful Dodger in "Oliver Twist", Ebenezer Scrooge in "The Christmas Carol"... characters who live on not just in books but also in the English language itself. As the world celebrates 200 years of Charles Dickens, so does India despite the intense debate on the relevance of Dickensian pedagogy in the 21st century. The pictures he painted of Victorian England...
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Charles Dickens desk auctioned for £433,250

Charles Dickens desk auctioned for £433,250 The author had written his masterpiece Great Expectations on the desk. ...
07:40 PM, Jun 05, 2008
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