Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830: Volume 2, Hardback - ***
872,99 RON
Presenting a vibrant account of Ireland's literary voices, this volume will be a key reference for scholars and students of Irish literature and En...
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A History of English Literature
Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia, Hardcover - Gal Kirn
684,99 RON
Yugoslavia's twentieth-century bore witness to civil war, sharp ideological struggles and a series of 'partisan ruptures'; revolutionary events tha...
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The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature, Hardcover - Peter Remien
684,99 RON
DescriptionThe Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural phi...
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History of Particle Theory: Between Darwin and Shakespeare, Hardcover - Paul H. Frampton
674,99 RON 722,99 RON
Reducere. History of Particle Theory fills an important gap existing in the literature by discussing the impressive progress in understanding the elementary ...
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The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language. All at Sea, Hardback - ***
604,99 RON
This book shows how prose writers in the Victorian period grappled with the sea as a setting, a shaper of plot and character, as a structuring moti...
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The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England, Hardback - ***
604,99 RON
This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...
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American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition, Hardcover - Emily Coit
593,99 RON
Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated...
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Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's Vocal Works, Hardcover - Kate Kennedy
581,99 RON
DescriptionBritten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was de...
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The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, Paperback - Ilya Ehrenburg
560,99 RON 600,99 RON
Reducere. The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a collection of eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other documents on the activi...
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Multiliterate Ireland. Literary Manifestations of a Multilingual History, Hardback - Tina Bennett-Kastor
556,99 RON
Multiliterate Ireland explores the literature of a selection of Irish writers through the prism of multiliteracy. Through this wide-ranging analysi...
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Beckett Beyond the Normal, Hardcover - Seán Kennedy
556,99 RON
This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so often about mental illness, disability, p...
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Shakespeare's Body Parts: Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays, Hardcover - Huw Griffiths
556,99 RON
This book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays, in...
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The Bronts and War: Fantasy and Conflict in Charlotte and Branwell Bront's Youthful Writings, Hardcover - Emma Butcher
555,99 RON
This book explores the representations of militarisim and masculinity in Charlotte and Branwell Bront 's youthful writings. It offers insight into ...
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Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650, Hardcover - Eric Weiskott
547,99 RON
What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in E...
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The Mirror of My Heart (Bilingual Edition): A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women, Hardcover - Dick Davis
514,99 RON 551,99 RON
Reducere. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart - the poems in Persian and English on facing pages - is a unique and captivating collection in...
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Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England, Hardcover - Elizabeth Allen
429,99 RON 460,99 RON
Reducere. To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine prese...
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Jewish Liturgy a Comprehensive Histor, Hardcover - Ismar Elbogen
397,99 RON 425,99 RON
Reducere. The Jewish prayer book, the sidur, is the longest continuous record of the history, philosophy, literature and ethics of the Jewish people. It has ...
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Reading the Short Story: A Student's Guide to Selected British, Irish and American Works, Paperback - Anna Wing Tso
395,99 RON
Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory cha...
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A Book of Middle English, Paperback - Thorlac Turville-Petre
353,99 RON 378,99 RON
Reducere. The fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 an...
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The Iliad & The Odyssey;Homer's Greek Epics with Selected Writings, Hardcover - ***
345,99 RON 370,99 RON
Reducere. This collection includes both of the greatest Greek stories ever told and numbers amongst the most important works of Western literature. "The Illi...
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Geography of Strabo. An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes, Paperback - ***
339,99 RON
First serviceable English translation in nearly a century of the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature. The major source for studying...
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Reading Lacan's Écrits: From 'signification of the Phallus' to 'metaphor of the Subject', Paperback - Stijn Vanheule
337,99 RON
DescriptionThe crits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud vi...
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Lushootseed Texts: An Introduction to Puget Salish Narrative Aesthetics, Hardcover - Crisca Bierwert
317,99 RON
This volume introduces the oral literature of Native American peoples in Puget Salish speaking areas of western Washington. Seven stories told by L...
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The Lore of the Chinese Lute, Hardcover - Robert H. Van Gulik
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Reducere. The lute, ch'in or guqin is one of China's oldest and most revered musical instruments. Records indicate that it has been a favourite of the litera...
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Anglo-Saxon Emotions. Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature and Culture, Paperback - ***
309,99 RON
In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions, this volume brings together establishe...
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Longman Academic Reading Series 2 with Essential Online Resources, Paperback - Kim Sanabria
304,99 RON
The Longman Academic Reading Series is a five-level series that prepares English language learners for academic work. High-interest readings cover ...
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Reading Lacan's crits: From 'The Freudian Thing' to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache', Paperback - Derek Hook
301,99 RON
The crits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structura...
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From Antisemitism to Anti-Zionism: The Past & Present of a Lethal Ideology, Paperback - Eunice G. Pollack
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Reducere. Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle,...
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Ancient Greek Divination, Paperback - Sarah Iles Johnston
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Reducere. The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatory methods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yet detailed treatment of the earlie...
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A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature, Hardcover - Heather Ingman
291,99 RON
DescriptionThis book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It cover...
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The Novel: A Biography, Hardcover - Michael Schmidt
273,99 RON
The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great...
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Buddhadhamma: Natural Laws and Values for Life, Paperback - Phra Prayudh Payutto
273,99 RON 293,99 RON
Reducere. Written by a Thai, Theravada monk who has been recognized for his scholarly achievements, Buddhadhamma is a modern distillation of pivotal doctrine...
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Wittenwiler's Ring and the Anonymous Scots Poem Colkelbie Sow. Two Comic-Didactic Works from the Fifteenth Century, Paperback - ***
272,99 RON
Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-did...
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Mother Goose Refigured: A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales, Paperback - Christine a. Jones
268,99 RON 287,99 RON
Reducere. DescriptionCharles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps pass ("Stories or Tales of the Past") in France in 1697 during what scholars cal...
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Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, Paperback - Dimitra Fimi
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Reducere. Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contempora...
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Historical-critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology, Paperback - F. W. J. Schelling
264,99 RON 283,99 RON
Reducere. Translated here into English for the first time, F. W. J. Schelling's 1842 lectures on the Philosophy of Mythology are an early example of interdis...
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Perpetual Movement: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, Paperback - Neil Badmington
263,99 RON 282,99 RON
Reducere. The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensivel...
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Memorial Book: The Ritavas Community: A Tribute to the Memory of Our Town (Rietavas, Lithuania), Hardcover - Alter Levite
261,99 RON 280,99 RON
Reducere. DescriptionThis is a reprint of and English translation of the Memorial Book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Riteve, Lithuania, also called by...
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Scarlet and the Beast I: A history of the war between English and French Freemasonry, Paperback - John Daniel
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Reducere. DescriptionMy research has revealed that there are two separate and opposing powers in Freemasonry. One, headquartered in London, subscribes to and...
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The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life, Paperback - Jack M. Balkin
256,99 RON 274,99 RON
Reducere. As important to Chinese civilization as the Bible is to Western culture, the I Ching or Book of Changes is one of the oldest treasures of world lit...
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History of English Literature, Paperback - Michael Alexander
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A History of English Literature has received exceptional reviews. Tracing the development of one of the world's richest literatures from the Old En...
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On Collective Memory, Paperback - Maurice Halbwachs
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How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in...
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The Hammer of Witches, Paperback - Christopher S. MacKay
255,99 RON
The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486-7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early moder...
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A Thomas More Sourcebook, Paperback - Gerald B. Wegemer
254,99 RON 272,99 RON
Reducere. This Source Book brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More--poet, scholar, statesman, family man, educational reformer, philosopher, h...
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Gadamer on Celan: "who Am I and Who Are You?" and Other Essays, Paperback - Hans-Georg Gadamer
253,99 RON 271,99 RON
Reducere. DescriptionGadamer on Celan makes all of Hans-Georg Gadamer's published writings on Paul Celan's poetry available in English for the first time. Ga...
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American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, Paperback - Benjamin Harshav
253,99 RON
This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...
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The Holocaust and North Africa, Paperback - Aomar Boum
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Reducere. DescriptionThe Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through...
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New York City History, Paperback - Bob Swacker
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Reducere. New York City History is essential reading not only for fans of regional history, but for readers who wish to understand the American experience th...
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The Voyage of St Brendan. Representative Versions of the Legend in English Translation with Indexes of Themes and Motifs from the Stories, Paperback -
238,99 RON
In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but also within the history ...
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No Star Too Beautiful: Yiddish Stories from 1382 to the Present, Paperback - Joachim Neugroschel
227,99 RON 243,99 RON
Reducere. First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally. Yiddish ...
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The Letters of Symmachus: Book 1, Paperback - Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
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This introduction to, commentary on, and translation into English of the first book of letters by Quintus Aurelius Symmachus shows the leading orat...
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Manetho, with an English translation by W.G. Waddell, Paperback - W. G. Waddell
225,99 RON 241,99 RON
Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...
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Schopenhauer: A Biography, Paperback - David E. Cartwright
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Reducere. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the most original and provocative thinkers of the nineteenth century. He spent a lifetime striving to un...
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The Prophet by Khalil Gibran: Bilingual, English with Arabic translation, Hardcover - Jamil Elabed
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Reducere. Jamil Elabed, the author of this 8thGolden Copy edition of the translation into Arabic of Khalil Gibran'sThe Prophet, spent twenty years and eight ...
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Kobzar, Hardcover - Taras Shevchenko
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Reducere. Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the co...
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The Oxford book of English mystical verse, Hardcover - D. H. S. Nicholson
221,99 RON 237,99 RON
Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...
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Arts of Dying. Literature and Finitude in Medieval England, Paperback - D Vance Smith
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DescriptionPeople in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but t...
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How Literatures Begin: A Global History, Paperback - Joel B. Lande
217,99 RON
A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from anc...
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The Vulgate Bible, Volume III: The Poetical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation - Swift Edgar
214,99 RON
This is the third volume of a projected six-volume set of the complete Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the ...
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English Begins at Jamestown. Narrating the History of a Language, Hardback - ***
209,99 RON
English Begins at Jamestown explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European origins to its present-day status a...
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Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Paperback - Ian Convery
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The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups ...
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D zafi, Paperback - Franketienne
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Reducere. DescriptionD zafi is no ordinary zombie novel. In the hands of the great Haitian author known simply as Frank tienne, zombification takes on a symb...
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Russian Literature, Paperback - Ilya Vinitsky
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For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoev...
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After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, Paperback - Andreas Huyssen
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Reducere. One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo... " -...
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Selected Prose and Prose-Poems, Paperback - Gabriela Mistral
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Reducere. The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a heali...
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The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre, Paperback - Camelia Elias
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Reducere. This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragm...
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Hardcover - John Foxe
201,99 RON 216,99 RON
Reducere. An updated and modernized edition of the unparalleled classic with resurgent relevance for the twenty-first century Foxe's Book of Martyrs is one o...
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The Restoration Transposed. Poetry, Place and History, 1660-1700, Paperback - ***
199,99 RON
Countering stereotypes of Restoration poetry as the topical preoccupations of elite London-based men, this book demonstrates how the period establi...
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On Essays. Montaigne to the Present, Paperback - ***
193,99 RON
Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various ...
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Complete Poems, Paperback - D. H. Lawrence
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Reducere. This collection includes all the poems from the incomplete "Collected Poems" of 1929 and from the separate smaller volumes issued during Lawrence's...
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