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| Title | Sketches by Boz: Pseud. : Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People |
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| Publisher | Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 203 pages |
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