A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens' desk to go on permanent display at museum

They were the best of lines, they were the worst of lines - and the desk where Charles Dickens wrote them has been saved for the British public.
                   
London?s Dickens Museum has received a 780,000 pound ($1.2 million) grant from a government-backed heritage fund to buy the desk at which the 19th-century novelist wrote books including "Great Expectations."