Dickens relics auction draws near fifty thousand in bids
The sale of Charles Dickens's personal effects fetched almost fifty thousand dollars for his heirs while critics urge decorum and lament any haste to profit from the great novelist's memory. The note cites Thackeray's similar auction and objects to perceived mercenary haste in a money-loving country.
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