Two hundred years after his birth, the author of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, and OLIVER TWIST is now the subject of a year-long celebration at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
The Life and Work of 19th-Century English Writer Charles Dickens
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