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When I say that plays are ephemeral , I am of course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre ...
When I say that plays are ephemeral , I am of course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre ...
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He owes his origi- nality to an idiosyncrasy , not of course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race .
He owes his origi- nality to an idiosyncrasy , not of course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race .
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This course , indeed , was forced upon him very generally in the past , when the author , how- ever distinguished and popular , could not earn enough money by writing to keep body and soul to- gether .
This course , indeed , was forced upon him very generally in the past , when the author , how- ever distinguished and popular , could not earn enough money by writing to keep body and soul to- gether .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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