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Pickwick, Samuel

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  1. The main character of The Pickwick Papers, a novel by Charles Dickens. Pickwick founds a club whose members use common words in extremely quirky ways.


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In 1839, not long after Pickwick, Samuel Warren's Ten Thousand a Year blended Bulwer and Dickens in a manner which to this day is a puzzle in its near approach to success.

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Pickwick, Samuel, the hero of Dickens's "Pickwick Papers," a character distinguished for his general goodness and his honest simplicity.

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