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| "The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Mary Lennox was horrid Selfish and spoilt she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire She hated it But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it a change comes over her and her life She meets and befriends a local boy the talented Dickon and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her Between them the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around them The Secret Garden is one of the best-loved stories of all time"
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| "The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "When Father goes away with two strangers one evening the lives of Roberta Peter and Phyllis are shattered They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage where Mother writes books to make ends meet However they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it They befriend the porter Perks and through him learn railway lore and much else They have many adventures and when they save a train from disaster they are helped by the Old Gentleman to solve the mystery of their father's disappearance and the family is happily reunited"
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| "Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "This edition contains Alice&39;s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them Tweedledum and Tweedledee the Mad Hatter the Cheshire Cat the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances and are now familiar figures in writing conversation and idiom So too are Carroll&39;s delightful verses such as &39;The Walrus and the Carpenter&39; and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody &39;The Jabberwocky&39;"
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| "Peter Pan & Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by Sir J. M. Barrie (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children Wendy John and Michael He teaches them to fly then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land where they find Red Indians wolves Mermaids and Pirates The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook His hand was bitten off by a crocodile who as Captain Hook explains 'liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since licking his lips for the rest of me' After lots of adventures the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is the magical tale that first introduces Peter Pan the little boy who never grows any older He escapes his human form and flies to Kensington Gardens where all his happy memories are and meets the fairies the thrushes and Old Caw the crow The fairies think he is too human to be allowed to stay in after Lock-out time so he flies off to an island which divides the Gardens from the more grown-up Hyde Park - Peter's adventures and how he eventually meets Mamie and the goat are delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham"
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| "The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views afflictions and manners His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot"
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| "Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones freelance writer and researcher George Eliot's final novel Daniel Deronda (1876) follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship Set largely in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s Daniel Deronda charts their search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism the oppression of women and racial and religious prejudice Gwendolen's attempts to escape a sadistic relationship and atone for past actions catalyse her friendship with Deronda while his search for origins leads him via Judaism to a quest for moral growth Eliot's radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures that the novel is as controversial now as when it first appeared"
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| "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts Here is Edward FitzGerald's original translation of the Rubaiyat the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam FitzGerald's distinctive version (1859) with its oriental imagery and sensual warmth made an exotic appeal to the Victorian imagination Its scepticism fitted a time of increasing religious doubt; its romantic melancholy resonated with the writings of Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy; and its epicureanism heralded the Aesthetic Movement It has inspired composers rock groups artists and film-makers As rendered by FitzGerald the Rubaiyat remains a seductively subversive poem"
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| "The Best Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story This collection displays his lively diversity with tales that vary in theme and tone ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce In a lucidly direct style he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony He depicts the deceptions hypocrisies and vanities at different levels of society Prostitution is frankly described while the harshness of war is deftly exposed His tales have been televised and have influenced films operas and rock music Unillusioned but humane Maupassant remains our contemporary"
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| "Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M Pawlowski Professor and Chair Department of English California State UniversityBakersfield Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence Society hostess Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party Her thoughts and sensations on that one day and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith whose madness escalates as his life draws toward inevitable suicide"
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| "Adam Bede by George Eliot (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts Rutherford College University of Kent at Canterbury'Examine your words well and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth even about your immediate feelings'Adam Bede (1859) George Eliot's first full-length novel marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis' But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost The movement of the narration between social realism and reflection on its own processes the exploration of motives and the constant authorial presence all bespeak an art that strives to connect the fictional with the actual"
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| "Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour University of Kent at Canterbury Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright confident and optimistic novel This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony established Hardy as a writer However the novel is not merely a charming rural idyll The double-plot in which the love story of Dick Dewey and Fancy Day is inter-related with a tragic chapter in the history of Mellstock Choir hints at the poignant disappearance of a long-lived and highly-valued traditional way of life"
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| "Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold University of Westminster Illustrated by F Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen Unusually for Dickens Hard Times is set not in London but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories downtrodden workers and polluted environment This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby However human joy is not excluded thanks to &39;Mr Sleary&39;s Horse-Riding&39; circus a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown Macaulay attacked Hard Times for its ‘sullen socialism’ but 20th-century critics such as George Bernard Shaw and FR Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms while readers the world over have found inspiration and enjoyment from what is both Dickens’ shortest completed novel and also one of his important statements on Victorian society"
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| "Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M Pawlowski Professor and Chair Department of English California State University Bakersfield Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature' playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West Spanning three centuries the novel opens as Orlando a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost At the midpoint of the novel Orlando now an ambassador in Costantinople awakes to find that he is a woman and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries As the novel ends in 1928 a year consonant with full suffrage for women Orlando now a wife and mother stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women"
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| "100 Selected Stories by O. Henry (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts MA PhDThis selection of a hundred of O Henry's succinct tales displays the range humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writerHere Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life ranging from thieves to tycoons from the streets of New York to the prairies of TexasThese stories are famed for their 'trick endings' or 'twists in the tail' repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly compounding ironies Indeed O Henry's cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates His style is genial lively and witty displaying a virtuoso's command of language and allusionThis great collection offers delights for the mind imagination and emotions"
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| "The Iliad by Homer (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway University of London The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611) Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad In muscular onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles the great warrior and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans Chapman regarded the translation of this epic and of Homer's Odyssey (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as his life's work and dedicated himself to capturing the 'soul' of the poem Swinburne praised the resulting translation for its romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur its freshness strength and inexhaustible fire' qualities that reflect the grandeur fire and brutality of the original poem This new edition includes a critical introduction and extensive notes rendering Chapman's extraordinary poetic masterpiece accessible to modern readers"
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| "The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston University of Nottingham Illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) with its combination of the sentimental the grotesque and the socially concerned and its story of pursuit and courage which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous was an immediate popular success Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised many of them wrote to him about her fate Dickens was conscious of the many friends' the novel had won for him and the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow' and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works"
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| "Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Dr TCB Cook Illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman' It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family to the delightful Mrs Nickleby taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players the Mantalinis the Kenwigs and many more Combining these with typically Dickensian elements of burlesque and farce the novel is eminently suited to dramatic adaptation So great was the impact as it left Dickens' pen that many pirated versions appeared in print before the original was even finished Often neglected by critics Nicholas Nickleby has never ceased to delight readers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic masterpieces of nineteenth-centure literature"
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| "Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude Introduction and Notes by EB Greenwood University of Kent Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels- of destiny death human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence It ends tragically and there is much that evokes despair yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life&39;s many ephemeral pleasures and a profusion of comic relief"
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| "Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman is a huge literary paradox for it is both a novel and an anti-novel As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters variously eccentric farcical and endearing As an anti-novel it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work ostentatiously digressive involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism Vibrant and bizarre Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne 'the most liberated spirit of all time'"
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| "The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction by Antonia Till William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women of ordinary thoughts sights and sounds and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art Wordsworth spent most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy and his wife Mary by whom he had four children His remarkable autobiographical poem 'The Prelude' was completed in 1805 but was not published until after his death and it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth's poetry"
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| "The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction by Paul Wright 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817 This collection contains all of his poetry the early work which is often undervalued even today the poems on which his reputation rests including the 'Odes' and the two versions of the uncompleted epic 'Hyperion' and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and comic verse It all demonstrates the extent to which he tested his own dictum throughout his short creative life That life spanned one of the most remarkable periods in English history in the aftermath of the French Revolution and this collection with its detailed introductions and notes aims to place the poems very much in their context The collection is ample proof that Keats deservedly achieved his wish to 'be among the English Poets after my death'"
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| "The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock Senior Lecturer in English University of Hull Shelley's short prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition of his day a fiery political visionary committed to social change and progress The generous selection in this volume represents the wide range of his writing both poetry and prose Arranged chronologically the accompanying introductory essays set Shelley's works in their historical social and political context They provide a vivid insight into the life and times of this volcanic spirit whose inspiring voice called on the people of England to Rise like lions after slumberIn unvanquishable number;Shake your chains to earth like dewWhich in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many they are few'(The Mask of Anarchy)"
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| "The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Lord Alfred Tennyson (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Selected by Rosemary Gray Poignant wry chilling challenging amusing thought-provoking and always intriguing these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more analytical of human behaviour all are guaranteed to capture the imagination stir the emotions linger in the memory and whet the reader's appetite for more In this book Wordsworth Editions presents the modern reader with a rich variety of short stories by a host of towering literary figures ranging from Arnold Bennett to Virginia Woolf This disparate and distinguished company of writers has rarely - if ever - met within the pages of one volume the result is a positive feast"
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| "The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis University of Kent at Canterbury Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve This edition brings together in a form he himself sanctioned his Collected Poems of 1928 the unexpurgated version of Pansies and Nettles adding to these volumes the contents of the two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he died in 1930 It therefore allows the reader to trace the development of Lawrence as a poet and appreciate the remarkable originality and distinctiveness of his achievement Not all the poems reprinted here are masterpieces but there is more than enough quality to confirm Lawrence's status as one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century"
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| "The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction by Emma HartnollInitially a vivacious outgoing person Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence An undiscovered genius during her lifetime only seven out of her total of 1775 poems were published prior to her death She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life love nature time and eternity Originally branded an eccentric Emily Dickinson is now recognised as a major poet of great depth startling originality and courage for as she wrote Assent and you are sane; Demure you're straightaway dangerous And handled with a chain'"
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| "The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson Trinity College Dublin Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness communicated in language and idiom regarded by many at the time as shocking Whitman's poems are organic and free flowing fit into no previously defined genre and skilfully combine autobiographical sociological and religious themes with lyrical sensuality His verse is a fitting celebration of a new breed of American and includes 'Song of Myself' 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' the celebratory 'Passage to India' and his fine elegy for the assassinated President Lincoln 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'"
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| "The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex W B Yeats was Romantic and Modernist mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival Nobel prizewinner dramatist and above all poet He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems T S Eliot one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them' For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century Yeats's work is essential This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times Paradoxical proud and passionate Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever"
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| "The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim John Bunyan was variously a tinker soldier Baptist minister prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this his greatest work It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero - Christian - from the City of Destruction via the Slough of Despond the Hill of Difficulty the Valley of the Shadow of Death and Vanity Fair over the River of the Water of Life and into the Celestial City The Pilgrim's Progress has been translated into 108 languages was a favourite of Dr Johnson and was praised by Coleridge as one of the few books which might be read repeatedly and each time with a new and different pleasure"
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| "Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "With an Introduction by Angus Calder As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War' Lawrence's younger brothers Frank and Will had been killed on the Western Front in 1915 Seven Pillars of Wisdom written between 1919 and 1926 tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting 'hospital' in Damascus Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no Boys Own Paper tale of Imperial triumph but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky and alongside the writings of Yeats Eliot and Joyce"
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| "Key Philosophical Writings by Rene Descartes (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Translated by Elizabeth S Haldane and GRT Ross Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo Rene Descartes (1569-1650) the father' of modern philosophy is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity Breaking with the conventions of his own time and suffering persecution by the Church as a consequence Descartes in his writings - most of which are philosophical classics - attempted to answer the central questions surrounding the self God free-will and knowledge using the science of thought as opposed to received wisdom based on the tenets of faith This edition the most comprehensive one-volume selection of Descartes' works available in English includes his great essay Discourse on Method"
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