Planning a Dickens of a trip

USA Today Monday 6th February, 2012

Among the events taking place to mark tomorrow's bicentenary: A street party in the English city of Portsmouth, where he was born in 1812; a wreath-laying ceremony at Poet's Corner in London's Westminster Abbey, where Prince Charles and actor Ralph Fiennes will be among the guests; and a 24-hour Dickens read-a-thon to be staged in 24 countries acro...

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