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2008 |
![]() ![]() Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: Penguin Longman Publishing € 10,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: VINTAGE Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives,' the D'Urbervilles, in hope that they might help her alleviate her own family's poverty. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal. When she falls in love with another man, Angel Clare, Tess sees a potential escape from her past, but only if she can tell him her shameful secret. € 7,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas, Vance Simon (NRT) Publisher: Tantor Media Inc Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.Thomas Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as 'a pure woman,' caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. € 25,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas, Cosham Ralph (NRT) Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc € 40,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas Publisher: Einaudi Violentata nel bosco a sedici anni, seppellisce in segreto il suo bambino, s'innamora, ma la sua vita sarà per sempre segnata da un tragico destino. Dalla nobile famiglia dei suoi avi, Tess ha ereditato una bellezza inalterabile, che la perseguita come il marchio di un'infamia. Angel Clare e Alec d'Urberville distruggono la donna che è in lei, inseguendo un loro personale modello. Amore e morte, nobiltà e miseria avvolgono la storia di Tess e ne fanno uno dei personaggi più riusciti della letteratura inglese. Il romanzo è stato portato sullo schermo da Polanski in un film celebre, con Nastassia Kinski protagonista. € 14,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas Publisher: Barbes € 8,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas Publisher: Garzanti Aspra e brulla, sferzata dai venti, la brughiera di Egdon incombe come un'ombra minacciosa sui protagonisti del romanzo, ambientato, come tutte le opere della maturità di Hardy, in un mitico Wessex senza tempo e senza storia: misteriosa presenza, simbolo del destino cieco che governa il mondo, e immutabile orizzonte naturale entro cui si dispiegano le volubili passioni degli uomini. A innescare il dramma è il ritorno nella terra d'origine di Clym Yeobright, il 'nativo' evocato dal titolo inglese (The return of the native, 1878), un figlio della brughiera che dopo un lungo soggiorno a Parigi come mercante di preziosi decide di riscoprire le proprie radici e seguire la sua vocazione più autentica. Per l'affascinante e inquieta Eustacia Vye, ambiziosa sognatrice che trascorre i suoi giorni immaginando impossibili evasioni, l'incontro e poi il matrimonio con Clym sembrano essere l'occasione tanto attesa per sottrarsi all'angusta vita di provincia. Ma nulla unisce i due amanti, e molte cose li dividono: dopo averne fatto lo strumento dei suoi imperscrutabili disegni, il fato si vendicherà della bella Eustacia e la storia d'amore volgerà inesorabilmente in tragedia. € 16,00
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2007 |
![]() ![]() Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS Hardy's first masterpiece, this 1874 novel received wide acclaim upon publication and remains among the author's best-loved works. The tale of a passionate, independent woman and her three suitors, it explores Hardy's trademark themes: thwarted love, the inevitability of fate, and the encroachment of industrial society on rural life. € 5,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP Hardy's biographer Claire Tomalin has put together this new selection of his poetry, and both this and }The Time-Torn Man{ are published in paperback this month. € 9,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared ? marriage, religion, education ? and the outrage following publication led the embittered author to renounce fiction. Modern critics hail this novel as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought. € 8,75
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas, Maier Sarah E. (EDT) Publisher: Broadview Pr This classic novel tells the story of how the poor rural couple John and Joan Durbeyfield become convinced that they are descended from the ancient family of d'Urbervilles. They encourage their innocent daughter Tess to cement a connection with the d'Urberville family, including their unprincipled son Alec, with tragic consequences. 'A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented,' as Hardy subtitled the novel, represented a direct challenge to conventional Victorian notions of sexuality and femininity.This is a revised, updated, and expanded Broadview edition that highlights a feminist interpretation of the novel in an extensive introduction. The range of historical appendices (including contemporary articles, letters, maps, news stories, and reviews) will greatly enhance a reader's understanding of the text. € 16,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas, Rickman Alan (NRT) Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc The Return of the Native may be Thomas Hardy's finest writing. His descriptive and lyrical powers are at their height, his evocation of the wilds of Egdon Heath unmatched, his dissection of Eustacia and Clym's marriage unimpeachable. Perhaps nowhere else is Hardy's point that the universe is simply indifferent more compellingly made. Winner of the British Spoken Word Publishing Association's “Talkie Award” for Best Unabridged Classic Recording, this performance was commended by the Financial Times as “right for this tragic story of passion and loss.” € 33,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas Publisher: REA Una delle caratteristiche principali dell'arte narrativa di Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) è quella di ridurre i più ardui problemi dello spirito a poche idee forti ed elementari. I cinque racconti compresi in questa raccolta, La tragedia di due ambizioni, Il veto del figlio, Per sua moglie, L'Ussaro malinconico e Tradizione dell'anno 1804, hanno un unico filo conduttore: l'ambizione. Ma non vista come impulso positivo per ottenere qualcosa nella vita, piuttosto come un demone distruttivo degli affetti e delle relazioni, che non lascia la presa finché il povero malcapitato non si ritrova da solo di fronte ad un'immane tragedia. L'ambizione vista come pulsione che riesce ad evidenziare il contrasto tra la vita ideale desiderata da un uomo e quella reale che gli tocca di vivere. € 12,00
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2006 |
![]() ![]() Author: Thomas, Hardy Publisher: BERTRAMS PRINT ON DEMAND € 18,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas Publisher: Signet Classic One of literature's greatest and most tragic heroines. A beautiful and hearty farm girl, Tess Durbeyfield is about to have her life tragically changed by forces outside her control: lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. This controversial Victorian tale has come to be recognized as a triumph of literary art. € 7,65
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas Publisher: Pocket Classics ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A young woman challenges the conventions of her time in this classic novel about nineteenth-century English society. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. € 6,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: BERTRAMS PRINT ON DEMAND € 26,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Clegg Stewart, Hardy Cynthia (EDT), Lawrence Thomas B. (EDT), Nord Walter R. (EDT) Publisher: Sage Pubns In this overview of research in organization studies, Clegg (U. of Technology, Sydney, Australia) et al. compile 30 chapters by contributors in the fields of business, management, organizational studies, and related disciplines from universities around the world. Divided between sections that focus on ways of theorizing the field and specific issues, chapters discuss ecological and postmodernist approaches, organizational economics, complexity science, feminist views of organization studies, research, and using philosophies of the social sciences, and in the second half, leadership, decision-making, diversity, design, innovation, environmentalism, globalization, rhetoric, and other topics. Chapters new to this edition cover organizational change, knowledge management, and organizational networks. Other chapters have been revised or removed. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) € 147,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas; Singh S. (cur.) Publisher: Passigli Scriveva Eugenio Montale che 'il caso di Hardy è piuttosto raro', perché 'non si ha notizia di un prosatore-pensatore che, su altro registro, sia stato tanto poeta-poeta'. E in effetti il grande narratore inglese (1840-1928), giustamente famoso per i suoi romanzi (fra i quali 'Tess dei d'Urberville' e 'Giuda l'oscuro') e i suoi racconti, è stato anche grande poeta e la sua poesia ha avuto un ruolo di primo piano nella formazione di altri grandi poeti di lingua inglese, come Robert Graves, Phiip Larkin, Dylan Thomas e gli stessi Pound e Auden, che ebbe a dire di non poter 'scrivere liberamente su Hardy perché una volta ero innamorato di lui', definendolo 'mio padre poetico'; e non c'è bisogno di ricordare che questo debito poetico lo confessava apertamente lo stesso Eugenio Montale per i suoi 'Xenia' pubblicati nella raccolta 'Satura', e che di lui scrisse ancora che sull'importanza della 'sua poesia d'amore tutti sembrano concordi. Le liriche in memoria della sua prima moglie sono una delle vette della poesia moderna, e non di quella poesia vittoriana alla quale si sarebbe tentati di ascrivere un poeta già operante nel 1870'. Un'ampia selezione di questa sua poesia d'amore viene qui proposta da un suo autorevole specialista, poeta e traduttore, G. Singh, che già ha curato per la Passigli Editori una scelta dal suo vasto poema drammatico 'I dinasti'. € 10,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas; D'Agata D'Ottavi S. (cur.) Publisher: Marsilio La nota distintiva di questo capolavoro, una nota insolita nel cupo, tragico panorama dei grandi romanzi di Hardy è quella della leggerezza e dell'ironia. Sono infatti le piccole ironie della vita - la vita quotidiana di una comunità contadina o paesana, con le sue coincidenze, inganni e scherzi del destino protagoniste di queste storie raccontate, a turno, da un gruppo di viaggiatori che si spostano in un breve tragitto lungo la campagna del Wessex. Dandosi la parola l'un l'altro, i 'personaggi di vecchio stampo' che occupano la carrozza - il curato e l'anziana droghiera, l'impagliatore di tetti e il mercante di semi, l'impiegata delle poste e altri - intrecciano racconti bizzarri, tragici o grotteschi, che hanno il sapore inconfondibile delle storie di campagna. € 12,00
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2005 |
![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas, Walsh Lauren Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. A haunting tale of romantic self-deception, The Return of the Native focuses on mismatched lovers who see in each other only what they want to see, and decidedly not what is actually there. Clym Yeobright, the native of the title, returns to Hardy's fictional Egdon Heath determined to be a force for social progress. Dazzled by the beauty of Eustacia Vye, he imagines they're soul mates, woos and wins her, and enters into what is at first a passionate marriage. He soon discovers that what she really wants is a passport to a more exciting and sophisticated life, away from provincial England. Surrounding them are Clym's mother, strongly opposed to his marriage; Damon Wildeve, in love with Eustacia but married to Clym's cousin, Thomasin; and the oddly ambiguous observer Diggory Venn, whose frustrated love for Thomasin turns him into either a guardian angel or a jealous manipulator—or perhaps both. This stew of curdled love and conflicting emotions can only boil over into tragedy, and the book's darkly ironic ending marks it as both a classically Victorian novel and a forerunner of the modernist fiction that followed it. Lauren Walsh teaches a writing seminar at Columbia University, where she is completing her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature. € 10,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas, Cook Jonathan A. Publisher: Barnes & Noble Far From the Maddening Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. The first of Thomas Hardy's great novels, Far From the Madding Crowd established the author as one of Britain's foremost writers. It also introduced readers to Wessex, an imaginary county in southwestern England that served as the pastoral setting for many of the author's later works. Far From the Madding Crowd tells the story of beautiful Bathsheba Everdene, a fiercely independent woman who inherits a farm and decides to run it herself. She rejects a marriage proposal from Gabriel Oak, a loyal man who takes a job on her farm after losing his own in an unfortunate accident. He is forced to watch as Bathsheba mischievously flirts with her neighbor, Mr. Boldwood, unleashing a passionate obsession deep within the reserved man. But both suitors are soon eclipsed by the arrival of the dashing soldier, Frank Troy, who falls in love with Bathsheba even though he's still smitten with another woman. His reckless presence at the farm drives Boldwood mad with jealousy, and sets off a dramatic chain of events that leads to both murder and marriage. A delicately woven tale of unrequited love and regret, Far from the Madding Crowd is also an unforgettable portrait of a rural culture that, by Hardy's lifetime, had become threatened with extinction at the hands of ruthless industrialization. Jonathan A. Cook has a B.A. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's The Confidence Man, and has published numerous articles on the works of Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other nineteenth-century writers. € 7,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas, Galef David Publisher: Barnes & Noble Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Highly controversial because of its frank look at the sexual hypocrisy of Victorian society, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles was nonetheless a great commercial success when it appeared in 1891. It is now considered one of the finest novels in English. Using richly poetic language to frame a shattering narrative of love, seduction, betrayal, and murder, Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d'Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d'Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer Tess love and salvation, but he rejects her—on their wedding night—after learning of her past. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by the self-righteous rigidity of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. With its compassionate portrait of a young rural woman, powerful criticism of social convention, and disarming consideration of the role of destiny in human life, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and memorable of Hardy's novels. David Galef has published nine books: the novels Flesh and Turning Japanese; two children's books, The Little Red Bicycle and Tracks; two translations of Japanese proverbs, Even Monkeys Fall from Trees and Even a Stone Buddha Can Talk; a work of literary criticism, The Supporting Cast; an edited anthology of essays called Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading; and, most recently, the short-story collection Laugh Track. In addition, he has written more than seventy short stories for magazines ranging from the British Punch to the Czech Prague Revue, the Canadian Prism International, and the American Shenandoah. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, Twentieth Century Literature, The Columbia History of the British Novel, and many other places. He is a professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he also administers the M.F.A. program in creative writing. € 8,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: CRW Publishing Limited € 10,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: LONGMAN YORK NOTES € 9,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: Dover publications A cruel joke at a country fair goes too far when a drunken laborer auctions off his wife and child to the highest bidder. Rich in descriptive powers and steeped in irony, Hardy's gripping tale unfolds amid a rural English community. It offers a spellbinding portrayal of ambition, rivalry, revenge, and repentance. € 5,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo Nella persona di un misterioso barone, ricchissimo, potentissimo, infelice che piomba improvviso sulla vita pigra della campagna inglese - il caso si incapriccia di una giovane lattaia, la innalza a un'altezza per lei vertiginosa, e poi la lascia ricadere. Il caso che rende memorabile un momento, ma tanto più immemore e banale il resto della vita, conduce Margery a incontrare un uomo affascinante vicino a un gesto irreparabile, a salvarlo, e a ricevere in cambio la possibilità di vivere una giornata diversa dal solito. Margery è promessa sposa di un giovane a modo, e il piccolo evento si trasmette in cerchi concentrici, di equivoci e di intrico, e sconvolge la rete dei rapporti e delle attese di tutto un villaggio. € 12,00
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2004 |
![]() ![]() Author: Hardy Thomas Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Thomas Hardy's first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge. But he cannot erase his past. His wife ultimately returns to offer Henchard the choice of redemption or a further descent into his own self-destructive nature. A dark, complex story, The Mayor of Casterbridge brims with invention, vitality, and even wit. Phillip Lopate, a professor at Hofstra University in New York City, is best known as an essayist (“Bachelorhood,” “Against Joie De Vivre,” “Portrait of My Body”). He is the editor of the anthology Art of the Personal Essay and has written a novel, The Rug Merchant, and a book of poetry, The Daily Round. € 8,00
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![]() ![]() Author: HARDY THOMAS Publisher: Random USA JUDE THE OBSCURE - HARDY THOMAS - Random USA € 7,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: Dover publications Passionate Eustacia Vye detests her life amid the dreary environs of Egdon Heath and spies her escape when Clym Yeobright returns from Paris. Hardy's timeless tale of a romantic misalliance embodies his view of character as fate and underscores the tragic nature of ordinary human lives. The Return of the Native ranks among the author's greatest works. € 5,40
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