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| title = The Pickwick Papers
| original title = The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members
| image = Sam Weller and Mary 1903.jpg
| caption = Sam Weller and Mary
| author = Charles Dickens
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| publication date = 1837
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''The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members'' is usually known as simply '''''The Pickwick Papers'''''.
[[Charles Dickens]]' first novel and still one of his best known, it's a far more comedic read than his later stuff, although with strong touches of darkness, especially the Fleet Prison part of the book.
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It wasn't doing too well, sales wise, until Samuel Weller entered the story. Weller, an early example of the chirpy Cockney archetype, is prone to punching people with little provocation, dispensing Cockney wisdom and engaging in an entire series of "as the X said" jokes, but adding something before and afterwards, such as:
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As can be seen from the above quote, the Cockney accent has changed a lot since 1837; without Dickens's habit of using [[Funetik Aksent]] to show Weller's pronunciation, this fact would be unknown to modern linguists.
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Includes a character, Joe, who is rather obese and falls asleep frequently with no warning. This is exactly like the condition [http://www.emedicine.com/ped/TOPIC1627.HTM Obesity-Hypoventilation Syndrome], which is also known as "Pickwickian syndrome" because of it.
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* [[Adult Child]] (Tony Weller)
* [[Amoral Attorney]]
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