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A Damsel in Distress

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

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Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-17

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English

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Description An American composer, George Bevan, falls in love with a mysterious young lady who takes refuge in his taxicab one day. He tracks her down to an English country manor, where a case of mistaken identity leads to all manner of comedy and excitement. The novel was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1919. It was later adapted into a silent film, a stage play, and a musical starring Fred...

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A Gentleman of Leisure

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-17

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English

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Description After inheriting a fortune, and just back to New York from a cruise on which he spotted an intriguing young woman, Jimmy Pitt is drifting. So after seeing a blockbuster play about a gentleman thief, he’s ready to bet his friends at the Strollers’ Club that he could pull off a burglary himself. That night he makes friends with a real-life “Bowery Boy” thief, who helps him break into a corrupt police captain’s house, and everyone gets way more than they bargained for. Later, the action moves to the Earl of Dreever’s castle in England. There, the misunderstandings, threats, cheating, and confusion only multiply, requiring all of Jimmy’s wits and daring to clear up. In this short novel, ...

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A Prefect’s Uncle

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P. G. Wodehouse

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Дата добавления:

2024-10-24

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English

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P. G. Wodehouse’s second novel, and was first published in..." data-title="Книга A Prefect’s Uncle">

Description A new term is beginning at Beckford College, and “Bishop” Gethryn seems to have it all: He’s the head prefect of his schoolhouse, a top athlete on both the cricket and rugby teams, and is respected by his schoolmates and the Headmaster. But when his uncle arrives at the school, Gethryn’s world (and that of the school’s cricket team) is upended. The Prefect’s Uncle is P. G. Wodehouse’s second novel, and was first published in...

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Golf Stories

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

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Дата добавления:

2024-10-24

Язык книги:

English

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135

P. G. Wodehouse’s short stories are often set in the salons and townhouses of England, but he also wrote about golf, returning again and again to one of his favorite sports.

Set against a background of the unique and often quirky world of golf in the early 1920s, Wodehouse produced a great collection of stories chronicling the loves and lives of golf fanatics. Starting around 1919 he wrote these golf stories regularly for both American and English magazines, and published two collections: The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922) and The Heart of a Goof (1926). He continued to write golf stories until the mid 1960s.

Most of these stories are narrated by The..." data-title="Книга Golf Stories">

Description P. G. Wodehouse’s short stories are often set in the salons and townhouses of England, but he also wrote about golf, returning again and again to one of his favorite sports. Set against a background of the unique and often quirky world of golf in the early 1920s, Wodehouse produced a great collection of stories chronicling the loves and lives of golf fanatics. Starting around 1919 he wrote these golf stories regularly for both American and English magazines, and published two collections: The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922) and The Heart of a Goof (1926). He continued to write golf stories until the mid 1960s. Most of these stories are narrated by The...

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Indiscretions of Archie

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-17

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English

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Description Indiscretions of Archie is a comic novel adapted from a set of short stories serialized in the Strand magazine between March 1920 and February 1921 in the United Kingdom and between May 1920 and February 1921 in Cosmopolitan in the United States. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom on February 14, 1921 by Herbert Jenkins and in the United States on July 15, 1921 by George H. Doran. The eponymous Archie is Archibald Moffam, a gaffe-prone but affable Englishman who has found himself living in New York City after the end of the First World War, in which he had served with distinction. After a whirlwind romance Archie marries Lucille, the daughter of wealthy hotel owner and art collector Daniel Brewster. Many of the...

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Jeeves Stories

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;Короткие любовные романы;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-18

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

157

P. G. Wodehouse that feature the adventures of his most famous characters, Jeeves and Wooster. Wooster is a wealthy and idle young English gentleman of the interwar era. Jeeves is his extraordinarily competent valet whose name has since become synonymous with perfect service. The stories follow Wooster in his wanderings about London, around England, and across the Atlantic to New York, with Jeeves following in his wake and striving to keep his employer well-groomed and properly presented. Along the way Jeeves must somehow also manage to extricate Wooster and his friends from the various scrapes and..." data-title="Книга Jeeves Stories">

Description Jeeves Stories is a collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that feature the adventures of his most famous characters, Jeeves and Wooster. Wooster is a wealthy and idle young English gentleman of the interwar era. Jeeves is his extraordinarily competent valet whose name has since become synonymous with perfect service. The stories follow Wooster in his wanderings about London, around England, and across the Atlantic to New York, with Jeeves following in his wake and striving to keep his employer well-groomed and properly presented. Along the way Jeeves must somehow also manage to extricate Wooster and his friends from the various scrapes and...

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Leave It to Psmith

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Юмористическая проза;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-18

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English

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Psmith, down on his luck, takes out a newspaper advertisement to undertake a job, and the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, younger son of Lord Emsworth, enlists Psmith to steal his Aunt Constance’s diamond necklace. Psmith inveigles himself into Blandings Castle, posing as a Canadian poet. He falls in love with Eve Halliday and has to survive the suspicious and Efficient Baxter. In the meantime, others in Blandings Castle are also after the necklace.

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the twentieth century. After leaving school, he was employed..." data-title="Книга Leave It to Psmith">

Description Psmith, down on his luck, takes out a newspaper advertisement to undertake a job, and the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, younger son of Lord Emsworth, enlists Psmith to steal his Aunt Constance’s diamond necklace. Psmith inveigles himself into Blandings Castle, posing as a Canadian poet. He falls in love with Eve Halliday and has to survive the suspicious and Efficient Baxter. In the meantime, others in Blandings Castle are also after the necklace. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the twentieth century. After leaving school, he was employed...

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Love Among the Chickens

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-18

Язык книги:

English

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Wodehouse once described his writing as “musical comedy without music,” and Love Among the Chickens is one of the earliest examples of his trademark style. The narrator, Jeremy Garnet, is a mild-mannered author attempting to finish his next novel in peace and quiet. Enter Stanley Ukridge, a man brimming with endless schemes, who draws the narrator into his latest, “the idea of a lifetime”—running a chicken farm.

With little practical knowledge, yet boundless ambition, they move to a country house and put the plan into action. Along the way, Garnet falls headlong in love with a woman on the train, and becomes consumed with winning her heart, despite formidable..." data-title="Книга Love Among the Chickens">

Description Wodehouse once described his writing as “musical comedy without music,” and Love Among the Chickens is one of the earliest examples of his trademark style. The narrator, Jeremy Garnet, is a mild-mannered author attempting to finish his next novel in peace and quiet. Enter Stanley Ukridge, a man brimming with endless schemes, who draws the narrator into his latest, “the idea of a lifetime”—running a chicken farm. With little practical knowledge, yet boundless ambition, they move to a country house and put the plan into action. Along the way, Garnet falls headlong in love with a woman on the train, and becomes consumed with winning her heart, despite formidable...

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Mike

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

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Дата добавления:

2024-10-24

Язык книги:

English

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104

P. G. Wodehouse’s earlier novels, and one of his personal favorites. In a..." data-title="Книга Mike">

Description Mike Jackson is the youngest son of a family of excellent cricket players and the most promising batsman of them all. At Wrykyn, the public school his elder brothers once attended, his desire to prove himself as a cricketer is challenged by his apathy for studying and his penchant for mischief. In the second half of the novel, his poor academics result in his being sent to Sedleigh, where he immediately befriends Psmith, an eccentric monocle-wearing student in a similar situation. Together they navigate the social waters of a school that neither one of them wants to attend. Mike was one of P. G. Wodehouse’s earlier novels, and one of his personal favorites. In a...

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Mr. Mulliner Stories

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P. G. Wodehouse

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2024-10-24

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English

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P. G. Wodehouse could create.

This collection contains all of the Mr. Mulliner stories that are in the U.S. public..." data-title="Книга Mr. Mulliner Stories">

Description The eccentric and entertaining Mr. Mulliner is always ready with a tale for his willing audience at the Anglers’ Rest pub. He’s a master storyteller, and, in the finest tradition of fishermen everywhere, his stories are absolute whoppers, each featuring his illustrious—and sometimes outlandish—relatives. The Mulliners are, to a person, witty, talented, and unflappable, and yet they continually find themselves in the sort of pickles that only P. G. Wodehouse could create. This collection contains all of the Mr. Mulliner stories that are in the U.S. public...

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Piccadilly Jim

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Научная фантастика;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-18

Язык книги:

English

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P. G. Wodehouse, was first published on February 24, 1917 by Dodd, Mead and Company in New York. It was subsequently published in London in May 1918 by Herbert Jenkins. It is based on a story originally published in the Saturday Evening Post from September 16 to November 11, 1916. The book sees Jimmy Crocker, also known as “Piccadilly Jim,” trying to escape his increasingly bad reputation by returning to New York from London. On the way, he meets and falls in love with Ann Chester, and agrees to help her kidnap Ogden, her cousin, for his own good. Their plans go awry and become more convoluted as impersonations, explosives and a determined detective get..." data-title="Книга Piccadilly Jim">

Description Piccadilly Jim, by P. G. Wodehouse, was first published on February 24, 1917 by Dodd, Mead and Company in New York. It was subsequently published in London in May 1918 by Herbert Jenkins. It is based on a story originally published in the Saturday Evening Post from September 16 to November 11, 1916. The book sees Jimmy Crocker, also known as “Piccadilly Jim,” trying to escape his increasingly bad reputation by returning to New York from London. On the way, he meets and falls in love with Ann Chester, and agrees to help her kidnap Ogden, her cousin, for his own good. Their plans go awry and become more convoluted as impersonations, explosives and a determined detective get...

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Psmith in the City

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Юмористическая проза;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-18

Язык книги:

English

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the twentieth century. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early..." data-title="Книга Psmith in the City">

Description Mike Jackson is a rising cricket star who finds his dreams of studying and playing at Cambridge upset by news of his father’s financial troubles. He takes a job with the New Asiatic Bank in London. He arrives to find that his dapper and verbose young friend Psmith is also a new employee, and together they navigate early twentieth century office life, make the best of their position and squeeze in a little cricket from time to time. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the twentieth century. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early...

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Psmith, Journalist

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Юмористическая проза;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-18

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English

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Wodehouse’s Psmith novels, and is a marked departure from the author’s usual settings..." data-title="Книга Psmith, Journalist">

Description Growing bored while accompanying his Cambridge chum Mike on a cricket tour of the United States, Psmith seeks adventure in New York City. He finds it in the form of the weekly newspaper Cosy Moments, a completely bland and inoffensive publication at which, through charm and sheer force of personality, Psmith appoints himself an unpaid subeditor, fires the entire contributing staff, and embarks on a crusade against the slumlords, gangs, and boxing managers of his holiday destination. Psmith, Journalist is the second of Wodehouse’s Psmith novels, and is a marked departure from the author’s usual settings...

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Right Ho, Jeeves

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-19

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English

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P. G. Wodehouse’s popular Bertie Wooster and Jeeves characters. Bertie, a member of the English upper class and one of the “idle rich,” tries his best to arrange relationships between two pairs of his friends. Though he means well, Bertie’s bumbling attempts wind up doing more harm than good (as usual), leaving it to his valet, Jeeves, to see if he can sort things out.

A smooth, easy, and often hilarious read, Right Ho, Jeeves is an excellent example of why Bertie Wooster and Jeeves have become such iconic literary..." data-title="Книга Right Ho, Jeeves">

Description Right Ho, Jeeves is the second novel to feature P. G. Wodehouse’s popular Bertie Wooster and Jeeves characters. Bertie, a member of the English upper class and one of the “idle rich,” tries his best to arrange relationships between two pairs of his friends. Though he means well, Bertie’s bumbling attempts wind up doing more harm than good (as usual), leaving it to his valet, Jeeves, to see if he can sort things out. A smooth, easy, and often hilarious read, Right Ho, Jeeves is an excellent example of why Bertie Wooster and Jeeves have become such iconic literary...

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School Stories

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;Короткие любовные романы;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-18

Язык книги:

English

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P. G. Wodehouse that feature the trials, tribulations and adventures of the denizens of the turn-of-the-century English boarding school.

First published in schoolboy magazines starting in 1901, the stories originally appeared in publications like The Captain and Public School Magazine. Some were also later collected into books. These stories, written more than a decade before he moved on to his more famous characters like Jeeves and Wooster, represent Wodehouse’s first magazine sales and showcase his early career. While some of these stories are definitely of a moment, they’re..." data-title="Книга School Stories">

Description School Stories is a collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that feature the trials, tribulations and adventures of the denizens of the turn-of-the-century English boarding school. First published in schoolboy magazines starting in 1901, the stories originally appeared in publications like The Captain and Public School Magazine. Some were also later collected into books. These stories, written more than a decade before he moved on to his more famous characters like Jeeves and Wooster, represent Wodehouse’s first magazine sales and showcase his early career. While some of these stories are definitely of a moment, they’re...

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Short Fiction

Автор:

P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:

Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;Короткие любовные романы;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-17

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

205

P. G. Wodehouse was an incredibly prolific writer who sold short stories to publications around the world throughout his career. The settings of his stories range from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the dance halls of New York, often taking detours into rural English life, where we follow his wide variety of distinctive characters and their trials, tribulations and follies.

The stories in this volume consist of most of what is available in U.S. public domain, with the exception of some stories which were never anthologized, and stories that are collected in themed volumes (Jeeves Stories,

Description P. G. Wodehouse was an incredibly prolific writer who sold short stories to publications around the world throughout his career. The settings of his stories range from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the dance halls of New York, often taking detours into rural English life, where we follow his wide variety of distinctive characters and their trials, tribulations and follies. The stories in this volume consist of most of what is available in U.S. public domain, with the exception of some stories which were never anthologized, and stories that are collected in themed volumes (Jeeves Stories, ...

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Something New

Автор:
P. G. Wodehouse

Жанр:
Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;

Дата добавления:
2022-03-19

Язык книги:
English

Кол-во страниц:
73

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P. G. Wodehouse and was published in the United States in 1915. Two Americans, Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, endeavor to retrieve a scarab pilfered from an American millionaire by the absent-minded Lord Emsworth. Marson and Valentine soon find themselves impersonating servants while evading the Efficient Baxter.

The story was originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post as Something Fresh in 1915. It introduced who would become the recurring characters of Blandings Castle: Lord Emsworth, Freddie Threepwood, Rupert Baxter, and Sebastian..." data-title="Книга Something New">

Description Something New is the first novel of what became known as the “Blandings Castle Saga” by P. G. Wodehouse and was published in the United States in 1915. Two Americans, Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, endeavor to retrieve a scarab pilfered from an American millionaire by the absent-minded Lord Emsworth. Marson and Valentine soon find themselves impersonating servants while evading the Efficient Baxter. The story was originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post as Something Fresh in 1915. It introduced who would become the recurring characters of Blandings Castle: Lord Emsworth, Freddie Threepwood, Rupert Baxter, and Sebastian...

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The Coming of Bill

Автор:
P. G. Wodehouse

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Дата добавления:
2024-10-24

Язык книги:
English

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83

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Description Superb physical specimen and independently wealthy Englishman Kirk Winfield lives the bohemian life of an aspiring painter in New York, sparring with his prizefighting friend Steve and daubing at canvases, until his life is upended by a chance encounter with Lora Delane Porter, an autocratic author of books on eugenics and hygiene. She determines at once that he will marry her niece Ruth Bannister, the daughter of a Wall Street business magnate, and that their child will be raised according to her own unsparing principles. When their son Bill arrives, Kirk and Ruth must discover a way to navigate their new life together against the currents of her family’s wealth, his artistic aspirations, and Lora’s meddling. Along with The...

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The Gold Bat

Автор:
P. G. Wodehouse

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Дата добавления:
2024-10-24

Язык книги:
English

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43

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P. G. Wodehouse’s earliest works, and the first of several set at the fictional boys’ public school Wrykyn. It was originally serialized in The Captain magazine and..." data-title="Книга The Gold Bat">

Description Trevor, the captain of the Wrykyn football team, finds his schoolboy honor in jeopardy when a miniature gold bat known to be in his keeping is misplaced in the course of a prank executed by O’Hara, the irrepressible Irishman. Trevor, O’Hara, and others must find the bat to preserve Trevor’s honor, while also ensuring Wrykyn’s victory in football over their arch-rival Ripton, and suffering increasingly audacious attacks from the sinister and anonymous League. The Gold Bat is one of P. G. Wodehouse’s earliest works, and the first of several set at the fictional boys’ public school Wrykyn. It was originally serialized in The Captain magazine and...

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The Head of Kay’s

Автор:
P. G. Wodehouse

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Дата добавления:
2024-10-24

Язык книги:
English

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45

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Description The Head of Kay’s is a chronicle of the adventures of two boys, Fenn and Kennedy, who conspire to replace their ill-mannered headmaster, Mr. Kay. On the way, the gregarious boys are involved in cricket and rugby matches between the houses, a music concert gone wrong, and other adventures in this exciting story exploring the lives and relationships of boarding school boys. The book was first serialized in The Captain from October 1904 to March 1905 before being published as a book in 1905. Released in the early part of his prolific career, it is the fifth book by P. G....

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