The desk where Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations and his final correspondence hours before his death fetched £433,250 ($850,000) at auction on Wednesday, around seven times its pre-sale estimate. The Irish entrepreneur who bought the furniture called the price "a bargain" for such a piece of literary history.
Rare works by Charles Dickens will go up for sale at Christie's New York auction house.
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