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Boz

Pseudonym under which Charles Dickens published a collection of satires on institutions, pictures of private individuals, and fairy tales of the vulgarity of his world (originally written for the Morning Chronicle), with the title Sketches by Boz 1836.

The Pickwick Papers was first published under the same name 1836-37. Boz was, in fact, a nickname of his brother.



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I thought he had done with me after this, but I was deceived; for a long interval having elapsed, during which I imagine him to have been turning restlessly from side to side, and trying to go to sleep; he broke out again, with 'I suppose THAT Boz will be writing a book by-and-by, and putting all our names in it
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