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Herman Melville (1819–1891)

Autor(a) de Moby Dick

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About the Author

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was born into a seemingly secure, prosperous world, a descendant of prominent Dutch and English families long established in New York State. That security vanished when first, the family business failed, and then, two years later, in young mostrar mais Melville's thirteenth year, his father died. Without enough money to gain the formal education that professions required, Melville was thrown on his own resources and in 1841 sailed off on a whaling ship bound for the South Seas. His experiences at sea during the next four years were to form in part the basis of his best fiction. Melville's first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), were partly romance and partly autobiographical travel books set in the South Seas. Both were popular successes, particularly Typee, which included a stay among cannibals and a romance with a South Sea maiden. During the next several years, Melville published three more romances that drew upon his experiences at sea: Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both fairly realistic accounts of the sailor's life and depicting the loss of innocence of central characters; and Mardi (1849), which, like the other two books, began as a romance of adventure but turned into an allegorical critique of contemporary American civilization. Moby Dick (1851) also began as an adventure story, based on Melville's experiences aboard the whaling ship. However, in the writing of it inspired in part by conversations with his friend and neighbor Hawthorne and partly by his own irrepressible imagination and reading of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists Melville turned the book into something so strange that, when it appeared in print, many of his readers and critics were dumbfounded, even outraged. By the mid-1850s, Melville's literary reputation was all but destroyed, and he was obliged to live the rest of his life taking whatever jobs he could find and borrowing money from relatives, who fortunately were always in a position to help him. He continued to write, however, and published some marvelous short fiction pieces Benito Cereno" (1855) and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) are the best. He also published several volumes of poetry, the most important of which was Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), poems of occasionally great power that were written in response to the moral challenge of the Civil War. His posthumously published work, Billy Budd (1924), on which he worked up until the time of his death, became Melville's last significant literary work, a brilliant short novel that movingly describes a young sailor's imprisonment and death. Melville's reputation, however, rests most solidly on his great epic romance, Moby Dick. It is a difficult as well as a brilliant book, and many critics have offered interpretations of its complicated ambiguous symbolism. Darrel Abel briefly summed up Moby Dick as "the story of an attempt to search the unsearchable ways of God," although the book has historical, political, and moral implications as well. Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York, along with his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville Published c. 1944, painting created before 1891

Séries

Obras por Herman Melville

Moby Dick (1851) 35,291 exemplares
Billy Budd, Sailor (1924) 2,599 exemplares
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) 2,159 exemplares
Billy Budd and Other Stories (1924) 1,992 exemplares
Moby-Dick [Norton Critical Edition] (1851) 1,233 exemplares
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) 1,202 exemplares
Billy Budd and Other Tales (1961) 950 exemplares
Bartleby / Benito Cereno (1853) 934 exemplares
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852) 744 exemplares
Redburn / White-Jacket / Moby Dick (1983) 700 exemplares
Benito Cereno (1855) 681 exemplares
Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (1982) 622 exemplares
White-Jacket (1850) 614 exemplares
Graphic Classics: Moby Dick (2002) 541 exemplares
Omoo (1847) 498 exemplares
Four Great American Classics (1969) 323 exemplares
Billy Budd / Benito Cereno (1855) — Autor — 265 exemplares
The Complete Shorter Fiction (1997) 242 exemplares
Mardi and a voyage thither (1849) 233 exemplares
Selected Tales and Poems (1950) 221 exemplares
The Piazza Tales (1856) 200 exemplares
Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales (1961) 182 exemplares
The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville (1928) — Autor — 167 exemplares
The Portable Melville (1952) 153 exemplares
Tales, Poems, and Other Writings (2001) 144 exemplares
The Maldive Shark (1600) 143 exemplares
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (2006) 141 exemplares
Four Short Novels (1959) 141 exemplares
Moby Dick, Volume 2 (1851) 119 exemplares
The Enchanted Isles (1854) 109 exemplares
Billy Budd & Typee (1958) 98 exemplares
Moby Dick, Volume 1 (1851) 97 exemplares
Moby Dick, Billy Budd (1984) 76 exemplares
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2 (2020) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
Moby Dick (1998) 63 exemplares
Moby Dick (Graphic Novel) (2014) — Source Author — 61 exemplares
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 1 (2017) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Works of Herman Melville (1987) 51 exemplares
Selected Poems of Herman Melville (1964) 49 exemplares
I And My Chimney (1984) 49 exemplares
Moby Dick (Graphic Classics) (2008) 47 exemplares
Best of Herman Melville (1984) 41 exemplares
Billy Budd and The Encantadas (1966) 40 exemplares
Moby Dick [Penguin Readers] (2006) 40 exemplares
On the Slain Collegians (1971) 27 exemplares
John Marr and Other Poems (1888) 26 exemplares
Cuentos completos (1900) 26 exemplares
Classics Illustrated: Moby Dick (1851) 25 exemplares
Billy Budd [Macmillan Readers] (1999) 25 exemplares
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Selected Poems of Herman Melville (1991) 23 exemplares
Benito Cereno en andere verhalen (1977) 20 exemplares
Moby Dick (Now Age Books) (1973) 18 exemplares
Three American Poets (2003) 17 exemplares
Three Stories (1967) 16 exemplares
The Lightning-Rod Man (1982) 16 exemplares
Short Stories (1996) 13 exemplares
Selected poems (1995) 12 exemplares
Herman Melville: voyages (1970) 12 exemplares
The Piazza [short story] (2009) 11 exemplares
Moby Dick [adapted - Saddleback Illustrated Classics] (1999) — Original Author — 11 exemplares
Opere scelte vol. 1 (1990) 11 exemplares
Billy Budd, marin / Daniel Orme (1980) 10 exemplares
Opere scelte vol. 2 (1990) 8 exemplares
Moby Dick (1984) 8 exemplares
Bartleby, el escribiente (2007) 8 exemplares
Journal Up the Straits (1935) 8 exemplares
The Bell-Tower (2019) 7 exemplares
Hawthorne and His Mosses (2014) 6 exemplares
Poems of Herman Melville (1976) 6 exemplares
Le Paradis des célibataires (2002) 6 exemplares
Redburn, Vareuse-Blanche : Oeuvres, II (2004) — Autor — 6 exemplares
Viajar (2011) 6 exemplares
Diario italiano (2011) 6 exemplares
Bartleby, le scribe (1853) — Autor — 5 exemplares
Poesie di guerra e di mare (1995) 5 exemplares
Romance of Herman Melville (1931) 4 exemplares
Obras Completas I (2005) 4 exemplares
MOBY DICK (2004) 4 exemplares
El estafador y sus disfraces (1980) 4 exemplares
Melville : Œuvres (Tome 4)  (2010) 4 exemplares
Herman Melville Collection (2008) 4 exemplares
Moby Dick (Spanish Edition) (2014) 4 exemplares
Typee & Omoo (2014) 4 exemplares
Œuvres, tome 1 (1997) 4 exemplares
Chowder (American Roots) (2014) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick (1987) 3 exemplares
L'intégrale des nouvelles (2021) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick (1991) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick: CD ROM (2008) 3 exemplares
Pierre ya da Belirsizlikler (2006) 3 exemplares
Timoléon (French Edition) (1970) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick (2000) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick (abridged) (1969) 3 exemplares
Preferiría no hacerlo (2009) 3 exemplares
Billy Budd and Other Tales (1970) 3 exemplares
Racconti (1853) 3 exemplares
Typee / Omoo / Weißjacke (1991) 3 exemplares
The Fiddler (2013) 3 exemplares
Putnam's monthly 3 exemplares
Moby Dick 2 exemplares
JAQUETA BRANCA (2017) 2 exemplares
Short Fiction 2 exemplares
Moby Dick (1980) 2 exemplares
Meistererzählungen (detebe) (2011) 2 exemplares
The Piazza Tales (2001) 2 exemplares
Le encantadas o isole incantate (2010) 2 exemplares
Melville on Melville 2 exemplares
Obras completas . III (2005) 2 exemplares
Vareuse-Blanche (2020) 2 exemplares
La veranda (2016) 2 exemplares
El jugador 2 exemplares
MOBY DICK Illustrated 2 exemplares
Moby Dick - Texte abrégé (2014) 2 exemplares
Moby Dick (1992) 2 exemplares
Five tales (2000) 2 exemplares
Nowele i opowiadania (2020) 2 exemplares
Moby Dick = Moby Dick (2018) 2 exemplares
Moby Dick. Oscar Junior (2019) 2 exemplares
Cuentos de la Veranda (1997) 2 exemplares
Veranda Oykuleri (2014) 2 exemplares
Moby Dick 2 exemplares
Moby Dick Libro secondo (1993) 2 exemplares
První plavba (1849) 2 exemplares
L'impostore: una mascherata (1998) 2 exemplares
John Marr (1922) 2 exemplares
Emoji Dick; Or, 🐳 (2010) 2 exemplares
Modydick 2 exemplares
The Herman Melville Collection (2016) 2 exemplares
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Moby Dick, dio 1 (2004) 1 exemplar
MOBY DICK 2 1 exemplar
MOBY DICK 1 1 exemplar
El timador (1976) 1 exemplar
MOby Dick, dio 2 (2004) 1 exemplar
Poésies (2022) 1 exemplar
“The Martyr” 1 exemplar
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Bartleby, el passant (1988) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick 35/22N 1 exemplar
Covek od poverenja 1 exemplar
Moby Dick'1 1 exemplar
Raj ľudožrútov 1 exemplar
PACHUCHE BET 1 exemplar
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1387) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (2 Vols) (1929) 1 exemplar
The 'Gees 1 exemplar
Jimmy Rose 1 exemplar
Bartleby, el escribiente (2019) 1 exemplar
Annales 1 exemplar
Moby Dick Filet (2015) 1 exemplar
Billy Budd #T510 1 exemplar
Moby Dick Vol.2 1 exemplar
Oszust 1 exemplar
Benito Centeno 1 exemplar
TYPPE 1 exemplar
Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Il violinista (2012) 1 exemplar
Pezzi di mare: poesie (2011) 1 exemplar
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Les encantades (2022) 1 exemplar
Cetologia 1 exemplar
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Short novels 1 exemplar
Timoleon etc. (1891) 1 exemplar
Bartleby (film) 1 exemplar
Classic Comics: Moby Dick (1991) 1 exemplar
Raj ľudožrútov 1 exemplar
Poèmes divers: (1876-1891) (1991) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (Picture Books) (1997) 1 exemplar
Works 16 vols 1 exemplar
Shorter Novels 1 exemplar
Complete Stories 1 exemplar
Four novels 1 exemplar
The Tragedy of Mind (1945) 1 exemplar
A bord (2004) 1 exemplar
Erzählungen. 1 exemplar
Melville: Six Short Novels (1975) 1 exemplar
Contos 1 exemplar
"Shiloh" 1 exemplar
Opere scelte (1991) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (Abridged) (1962) 1 exemplar
Oszust (2019) 1 exemplar
Recontar - Moby Dick (2009) 1 exemplar
Bartleby up Platt (2017) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick vagy (2012) 1 exemplar
Maldive Shark 1 exemplar
Pierre o delle ambiguità (2015) 1 exemplar
Fives Tales 1 exemplar
Toplu Öyküler (2019) 1 exemplar
Cojocelul alb 1 exemplar
Obras completas (2005) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (1991) 1 exemplar
Má první plavba 1 exemplar
Derniers poèmes (2010) 1 exemplar
Hôtel de la baleine (2015) 1 exemplar
Obras 1 exemplar
Moby Dick, 2 tomos (1989) 1 exemplar
GK - Moby Dick (2015) 1 exemplar
Redburn Illustrated (2020) 1 exemplar
Uncollected Poems 1 exemplar
Ne Denizsiz Ne Tütünsüz (2014) 1 exemplar
Timoleon and Other Ventures (2015) 1 exemplar
El embaucador 1 exemplar
Moby-Dick, etc 1 exemplar

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The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (1969) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
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World's Great Adventure Stories (1929) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Seven Short Novel Masterpieces (1961) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
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The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Moby Dick [1998 TV mini-series] (1998) 47 exemplares
Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (2014) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
In Dreams Awake (1975) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (2014) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Marvel Illustrated: Moby Dick (2008) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Best Loved Short Stories of Nineteenth Century America (2003) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
The Book of the Sea (1954) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
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American Gothic Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2019) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Mysterious Sea Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
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Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes (2021) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Best South Sea Stories (1964) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Short Stories of the Sea (1984) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
American gothic : An anthology 1787–1916 (1999) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
American short stories, 1820 to the present (1952) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
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Eight Short Novels (1967) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
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The World of Law, Volume II : The Law as Literature (1960) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
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Billy Budd [1962 film] (2007) — Original book — 21 exemplares
The Penguin Book of the Ocean (2010) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
A Treasury of Sea Stories (1948) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
The Blue Flower : Best Stories of the Romanticists (1955) — Autor — 19 exemplares
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
The Second Omnibus Of Crime: The World's Great Crime Stories (1932) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
The Saturday Evening Post Book of the Sea and Ships (1978) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
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Moby Dick [2011 TV mini series] (2011) — Original book — 16 exemplares
Disney Moby Dick, starring Donald Duck (2013) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Four great American novels (1946) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Godey's Lady's Book, vol 42. January - June 1851 (1851) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
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Law in Action: An Anthology of the Law in Literature (1947) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
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Selected English short stories XIX & XX centuries (1914) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Great Short Works of the American Renaissance (1967) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Melville, Herman
Nome legal
Melville, Herman
Outros nomes
Melvill, Herman [birth name/original spelling]
Data de nascimento
1819-08-01
Data de falecimento
1891-09-28
Localização do túmulo
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx County, New York, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
New York, New York, USA
Local de falecimento
New York, New York, USA
Causa da morte
cardiovascular disease
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA [1819-1830]
Albany, New York, USA [1830-1838]
Troy, New York, USA [1838]
merchantman St. Lawrence [1839]
whaling ship Acushnet [1841]
whaling ship Charles & Henry (mostrar todos 7)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Educação
New York Male School (1825)
Columbia Grammar School (1829-1830)
Albany Classical School (1835)
Albany Academy (1830-1831)
Albany Academy (1836-1837)
Lansingburgh Acadamy (1838)
Ocupações
bank clerk (1832-1834)
sailor
harpooner, whaleship Charles & Henry
farm hand (1834-1835)
novelist
Customs inspector, New York, New York, USA (mostrar todos 10)
clerk (1832-1834)
bookkeeper (1935-1937)
teacher (1837)
teacher (1839-1840)
Relações
Metcalf, Paul (great-grandson)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (friend)
Dana, Richard Henry (friend)

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Herman Melville, American author, was born in New York City on the 1st of August 1819. He shipped as a cabin-boy at the age of eighteen, thus being enabled to make his first visit to England, and at twenty-two sailed for a long whaling cruise in the Pacific. After a year and a half he deserted his ship at the Marquesas Islands, on account of the cruelty of the captain; was captured by cannibals on the island of Nukahiva, and detained, without hardship, four months; was rescued by the crew of an Australian vessel, which he joined, and two years later reached New York. Thereafter, with the exception of a passenger voyage around the world in 1860, Melville remained in the United States, devoting himself to literature -- though for a considerable period (1866-1885) he held a post in the New York custom-house -- and being perhaps Hawthorne's most intimate friend among the literary men of America. His writings were numerous, but judged of varying merit by his contemporaries; his verse, patriotic and other was forgotten; and his works of fiction and of travel were deemed of irregular execution. Nevertheless, few authors have been enabled so freely to introduce romantic personal experiences into their books. He portrayed seafaring life and character with vigour and originality, and from a personal knowledge equal to that of Cooper, Marryat or Clark Russell. But these records of adventure were followed by other tales that his contemporaries found so turgid, eccentric, opinionative, and loosely written as to seem the work of another author. He died a failed author in New York on the 28th of September 1891. The 20th century's collective reassessment of his work is much more favorable, and he is now classed among the greatest American writers.

Membros

Discussions

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Críticas

This was one of my first audiobooks. I was lucky. A great book narrated by a great voice. An unforgettable experience. William Hootkins' "Call me Ishmael" will hook you to the book literally from its first phrase.
 
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Blaise Pascal Contributor
Alphonse Daudet Contributor
Sun Tzu Contributor
Virginia Woolf Contributor
Aldous Huxley Contributor
Oscar Wilde Contributor
Dante Alighieri Contributor
Sir Walter Scott Contributor
Henry Fielding Contributor
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Frank Stockton Contributor
Shirley Jackson Contributor
James Thurber Contributor
Ernest Hemingway Contributor
Edith Wharton Contributor
William Faulkner Contributor
Tom Quirk Commentary, Editor, Contributor
Thomas Trent Translator
Pauline Kael Contributor
R. W. B. Lewis Afterword, Editor
John Updike Introduction
Susan M. Ryan Contributor
James Hall Contributor
Jonathan A. Cook Contributor
Abraham Tucker Contributor
Orville Dewey Contributor
Dennis Marnon Contributor
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Stephen D. Hoy Contributor
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John W. Shroeder Contributor
Henry Scott Tuke Cover artist
Lalit Kumar Illustrator
Daniel G. Hoffman Contributor
Hermann Fay Illustrator
Al Fiorentino Illustrator
Bruce Hodges Activities by
James Prunier Illustrator
Erez Volk Translator
Joyce Carol Oates Introduction
Mead Schaeffer Illustrator
Frank Muller Narrator
Klaus Buhlert Director
Clifton Fadiman Introduction
Kurt Schmischke Illustrator
Irene Hirsch Translator
Alice Seiffert Übersetzer
Matthias Jendis Translator
Cesare Pavese Translator
Paul Boehmer Narrator
Nathaniel Philbrick Introduction
Alfred Kazin Introduction
Hans Seiffert Übersetzer
Boardman Robinson Illustrator
Phoebe Judge Narrator
Andrew Delbanco Introduction
William M. Gibson Introduction
Jody Hewgill Cover artist
Fritz Güttinger Translator
Rockwell Kent Illustrator
Tony Millionaire Illustrator
David Herd Introduction
Garrick Palmer Illustrator
Nemi D'Agostino Translator
Barry Moser Illustrator
Robert Gibbings Introduction, Illustrator
Johan M. Palm Translator
Piet Clement Illustrator
Sabine Wilharm Illustrator
Auke Leistra Translator
William Plomer Introduction
Richard Moering Translator
坂下 昇 Translator
Ilse Hecht Translator
Jacques Boullaire Illustrator
Klaus Ensikat Illustrator
William Hodges Cover artist
Maurice Sendak Illustrator
Roy Fuller Introduction
Julian Markels Introduction
William Thorp Afterword
Christa Schuenke Übersetzer
Pierre Leyris Translator
Elizabeth Hardwick Introduction
Edward Gorey Cover artist
Robert Shore Illustrator
Maxwell Geismar Introduction
Peter Coviello Introduction
Bill Bragg Illustrator
Jay Leyda Editor
John Arcudi Foreword
Laure Dupont Translator
Antonio Frasconi Cover designer
T. Johnson Front cover illustration
Pascal Cloëtta Illustrator
Gianni De Conno Illustrator
Hans Paetsch Narrator
Bruguera Editor
Rex Warner Introduction

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