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Societies have been founded in order to produce plays that people may go to who disdain the com- mercial theatre . ... There are a number of dramatists who spend their whole careers writing plays which are only produced by these ...
Societies have been founded in order to produce plays that people may go to who disdain the com- mercial theatre . ... There are a number of dramatists who spend their whole careers writing plays which are only produced by these ...
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The literature of those countries that has been produced chiefly by amateurs is thin in comparison with that of the countries in which a number of men , with difficulty trying to make their living , have followed it as a profession .
The literature of those countries that has been produced chiefly by amateurs is thin in comparison with that of the countries in which a number of men , with difficulty trying to make their living , have followed it as a profession .
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There seemed nothing much for me to do at the moment , so I went to America where two of my plays were about to be produced . I wanted to recover my peace of mind shattered through my own foolish- ness and vanity by occurrences upon ...
There seemed nothing much for me to do at the moment , so I went to America where two of my plays were about to be produced . I wanted to recover my peace of mind shattered through my own foolish- ness and vanity by occurrences upon ...
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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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