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Why Charles Dickens still matters

10:45 AM, February 6, 2012
9:17 AM, February 20, 2011

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Charles Dickens's 200th birthday is tomorrow. Kerri and her guest Macalaster College president and Dickens scholar Brian Rosenberg will discuss why the British author remains a literary force of nature.

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