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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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| "Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne Chester College Illustrated by Marcus Stone Our Mutual Friend Dickens' last complete novel gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father's heir He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents - the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas Wegg"
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| "The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author George Grossmith seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and values has remained in print a source of delight to generations of readers and a major literary influence much imitated but never equalled If you don't recognise yourself at some point in The Diary you are probably less than human If you can read it without laughing aloud you have no sense of humour"
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| "Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by David Blair University of Kent at Canterbury Set in the reign of Richard I Coeur de Lion Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters Cedric of Rotherwood the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew Isaac of York and his beautiful spirited daughter Rebecca; Wamba and Gurth jester and swineherd respectively Scott explores the conflicts between the Crown and the powerful Barons between the Norman overlords and the conquered Saxons and between Richard and his scheming brother Prince John At the same time he brings into the novel the legendary Robin Hood and his band and creates a brilliant colourful account of the age of chivalry with all its elaborate rituals and costumes and its values of honour and personal glory"
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| "Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen Department of English University of Keele Illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer Forster noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character' Old Martin Chuzzlewit tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family effectively drives his grandson young Martin to undertake a voyage to America It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin but also for his grandfather and his grandfather's servant Mary Graham with whom young Martin is in love The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens' mastery of crime where characters such as the criminal Jonas Chuzzlewit the old nurse Mrs Gamp and the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickens' wonderful description of the London boarding-house - 'Todgers'"
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| "The Professor by Charlotte Bronte (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man William Crimsworth Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels But as a man William has freedom of action and as a writer Bronte is correspondingly liberated exploring the relationship between power and sexual desire William's first person narration reveals his attraction to the dominating directress of the girls' school where he teaches played out in the school's 'secret garden' Balanced against this is his more temperate relationship with one of his pupils Frances Henri in which mastery and submission interplay The Professor was published only after Charlotte Brontes death; today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination"
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| "The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure and disaster The other tales include the ironic horrific poignant and haunting Here Kipling displays his descriptive panache and realistic boldness Shrewd audacious abrasive and challenging he remains absorbingly readable"
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| "The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched and meticulous evocation of the manners and style of the period has delighted readers since the novel's first publication in 1920 In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction - it won the Pulitzer Prize and it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author"
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| "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson University of Kent at Canterbury The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests and uninvited visitors alike while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F Scott Fitzgerald Also featured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl May Day The Rich Boy Crazy Sunday An Alcoholic Case The Lees of Happiness The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited"
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| "Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century This is a deeply personal novel written from the author&39;s own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral evolution of English society during the last century"
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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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| "Middlemarch by George Eliot (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts Rutherford College University of Kent at Canterbury Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism disillusion profligacy loyalty and frustrated love This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century Henry James described Middlemarch as a treasurehouse of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as one of the few English novels written for grown-up people"
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| "The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Claire Seymour University of Kent at Canterbury The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy's Wessex novels He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath - reaching out to touch the lives and fate of all who dwell on it The central figure is Clym Yeobright the returning native' and the story tells of his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye As the narrative unfolds and character after character is driven to self-destruction the presence of the Heath becomes all-embracing while Clym becomes a travelling preacher in an attempt to assuage his guilt"
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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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| "The Lost World and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts MA PhD Research Professor of English University of Sussex These lively varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H G Wells) are linked by their imposing central character the pugnaciously adventurous and outrageous Professor Challenger The Lost World (forebear of Jurassic Park) vividly depicts a perilous region in which the explorers confront creatures from the prehistoric era The Poison Belt presents an eerie doomsday scenario while The Disintegration Machine satirically comments on scientific cynicism In When the World Screamed the planet responds violently to an experimental incursion The strangest item is The Land of Mist which seeks to reconcile science with spiritualism This memorable collection provides imaginative entertainment entrancing escapism and bold provocation"
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| "The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Charles PC Pettit Thomas Hardy's only historical novel The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day making us feel the impact of historical events on the immemorial local way of life - the glamour of the coming of George III and his soldiery fears of the press-gang and invasion and the effect of distant but momentous events like the Battle of Trafalgar He interweaves a compelling bitter-sweet romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland played out against the loves of a lively gallery of other characters While there are elements of sadness and even tragedy The Trumpet-Major shows Hardy's skills of story-telling characterisation and description in a novel of vitality comedy and warmth"
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| "The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly University of Reading In 1915 Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century Within this framework Lawrence's essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives using a religious symbolism in which the 'rainbow' of the title is his unifying motif His primary focus is on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social circumstances a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations Young Ursula Brangwen whose story is continued in Women in Love is finally the central figure in Lawrence's anatomy of the confining structures of English social life and the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the human psyche"
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| "Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging fully realised characters The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some an over-glamorised unprincipled predator to others Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly through the adventures of his fictional hero Frank Osbaldistone amid the political turmoil of England and Scotland in 1715 With characteristic care Scott reconstructs the period and settings so as to place Rob Roy and the Scotland he inhabits amid conflicting moral economic and historical forces This edition features besides a new critical introduction and extensive explanatory notes an essay outlining clearly the novel's historical context and a glossary of Scottish words and phrases used by Scott's colourful vernacular characters"
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| "The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant Canterbury Christ Church College The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises of the life of 1870s London the loves of those drawn to and through the city and the career of Augustus Melmotte Melmotte is one of the Victorian novel's greatest and strangest creations and is an achievement undimmed by the passage of time Trollope's 'Now' might in the twenty-first century look like some distant disenchanted 'Then' but this is still the yesterday which we must understand in order to make proper sense of our today"
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| "Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Karl Ashley Smith University of St Andrews Illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health But Dombey also has a daughter whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned 'Girls' said Mr Dombey 'have nothing to do with Dombey and Son' When Walter Gay a young clerk in her father's office rescues her from a bewildering experience in the streets of London his unforgettable friends believe he is well on his way to receiving her hand in marriage and inheriting the company It is to be a very different type of story Dombey and Son moved grown men to tears (Thackeray despaired of writing against such power as this') but its rich comic characters and their joyful explosions of language draw laughter with equally unerring magic"
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| "Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance Professor of English University of Sussex Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead But life as social outcasts proves undermining and when tragedy occurs Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair Hardy's portrait of Jude the idealist and dreamer who is a prisoner of his own physical nature is one of the most haunting and desperate of his creations Jude the Obscure is a dark yet compassionate account of the insurmountable frustrations of human existence which reflect Hardy's yearning for the spiritual values of the past and his despair at their decline"
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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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| "Christmas Books by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "With illustrations by Edward Landseer Daniel Maclise Clarkson Stanfield Frank Stone Richard Doyle John Leech and John Tenniel and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex In these five long stories written specifically for Christmas Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore A Christmas Carol the first of the selection has become a touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally Repeatedly adapted parodied staged and filmed this richly influential tale is powerfully vivid and moving The other stories The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man blend whimsy sentiment comedy satire the didactic and the fantastic developing resourcefully the theme of individual and social regeneration"
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| "Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers These seven tales in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism show considerable diversity of content form and style and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy In insisting on the unusual nature of any story worth the telling and with his gift for irony and compassion Hardy achieves more in the genre of the short story than any English novelist before him"
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