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Page 135
Societies have been founded in order to produce plays that people may go to who disdain the commercial theatre . ... There are a number of dramatists who spend their whole careers writing plays which are only produced by these societies ...
Societies have been founded in order to produce plays that people may go to who disdain the commercial theatre . ... There are a number of dramatists who spend their whole careers writing plays which are only produced by these societies ...
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... exciting composers to write for it and producing an elaborate school of performers , succumbed when musical instruments were invented that produced more beautifully the peculiar effects it sought ; and there is no reason why prose ...
... exciting composers to write for it and producing an elaborate school of performers , succumbed when musical instruments were invented that produced more beautifully the peculiar effects it sought ; and there is no reason why prose ...
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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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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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