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Everybody loves Dickens. A few of the hardcore fans even read his books, but most people are content to enjoy the lavish BBC adaptations, denuded of any of that nasty, dense prose that makes them take more than a week to Today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birthday (born February 7, 1812). To [...]

By Richard Shears A fading handwritten note glued to the inside of a cracked and weathered 200-year-old desk has created a baffling mystery which historians have yet to solve – was the desk used by the great Charles Dickens when he was a schoolboy? It's part of a marathon celebration of Charles Dickens's 200th birthday [...]