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Feb. 2, 2009 / 2:49 PM

Overdue book back after 37 years

GAVLE , Sweden, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A Swedish library said it received an anonymous package containing a book that went missing from the library more than 37 years ago.

The Gavle library said "An Essay on Liberation," a Marxist tome by German philosopher Herbert Marcuse, was returned to the shelves Thursday after the anonymous borrower returned it, The Local reported Monday.

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The last return date stamped inside the book was Nov. 11, 1971.

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