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  • Pickwick is pretty dense, has no wings, and loves marshmallows.

    Pickwick 2007

  • Pickwick is the cloned pet dodo of the main character, Thursday.

    Pickwick 2007

  • Four current IGFA record smallmouth bass — three of them topping 8 pounds — were caught in Pickwick Lake.

    15 Winter Fishing Destinations 2005

  • Structurally Pickwick is a mess and Nicholas Nickleby is not much better, but Dickens "was always striving in his work to include more and more, to make each novel bigger and broader and also more particular, and to make the links between all things less linear and more netlike."

    Dickens Our Contemporary 2002

  • Structurally Pickwick is a mess and Nicholas Nickleby is not much better, but Dickens "was always striving in his work to include more and more, to make each novel bigger and broader and also more particular, and to make the links between all things less linear and more netlike."

    Dickens Our Contemporary 2002

  • Bunter, though in his origin he probably owed something to the fat boy in Pickwick, is a real creation.

    Boys' Weeklies 1940

  • Now it is known as a fact that Dickens took the name Pickwick from the said Moses Pickwick the proprietor of the "White Hart," whose coaches he had seen and ridden in a year or two previously.

    The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, Bertram Waldrom Matz 1895

  • Bath, which already owed so much to famous writers, was destined to owe even more to Boz, the genial author of "Pickwick" -- a book which has so much increased the gaiety of the nation.

    Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

  • After launching his writing career as a reporter, first with the Morning Chronicle in 1834, using the pseudonym, Boz (Boz was a nickname for his younger brother Augustus) ; Dickens began contributing 20 monthly installments of a series (April 1836, through November 1837,) centering on comical adventures through the English countryside, that became known as the Pickwick Papers, his first novel, a work which earned him instant fame.

    Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012

  • After launching his writing career as a reporter, first with the Morning Chronicle in 1834, using the pseudonym, Boz (Boz was a nickname for his younger brother Augustus) ; Dickens began contributing 20 monthly installments of a series (April 1836, through November 1837,) centering on comical adventures through the English countryside, that became known as the Pickwick Papers, his first novel, a work which earned him instant fame.

    Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012

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