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My Favorite Place: Rare Book Department At FLP

Join Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, and Grip the raven inside the Rare Book Department of the Free Library in the newest installment of My Favorite Place

At 7th And Spring Garden, Confronting The Racism Of Poe
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At 7th And Spring Garden, Confronting The Racism Of Poe

Edgar Allen Poe’s time in Philadelphia will forever be enshrined in masterful gothic tales and bouts of boozy mania. But the author’s reputation as an anti-abolitionist? Contributor Max Marin visits Poe’s old stomping grounds where his racist views casts a complicated shadow on the wall of a public housing apartment complex

Mad About Dickens
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Mad About Dickens

In this the season of SOPA, we dip into Harry K’s Philadelphia Encyclopedia on this, the 200 birthday of Charles Dickens, and find the great man here on a mission to protect his copyright from piracy


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