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A birthday cake it cut to celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 in Philadelphia
Tuesday, Feb. 07, 2012

Open quoteYou only have to look around our society and everything he wrote about in the 1840s is still relevant — the great gulf between the rich and poor, corrupt financiers, you name it, he said it.Close quote

  • CLAIRE TOMALIN,
  • Charles Dickens' biographer, marking the bicentennial of the author
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