The desk where Charles Dickens wrote "Great Expectations" is seen in a handout photo from Christie's auction house in London. The desk where Dickens wrote "Great Expectations" and his final correspondence hours before his death fetched 433,250 pounds (850,000 U.S. dollars) at auction on June 4, 2008, around seven times its pre-sale estimate. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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