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... excited the public . The dramatist of ideas had to swallow the bitter pill that the intelligentsia for which he wrote would have nothing to do with his plays , but roared with laughter at the farce and wallowed in the thrills and ...
... excited the public . The dramatist of ideas had to swallow the bitter pill that the intelligentsia for which he wrote would have nothing to do with his plays , but roared with laughter at the farce and wallowed in the thrills and ...
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... exciting ; but beneath it was narrow . Now I entered a new world , and all the instinct in me of a novelist went out ... excited me was to meet one person after another who was new to me . I was like a naturalist who comes into a country ...
... exciting ; but beneath it was narrow . Now I entered a new world , and all the instinct in me of a novelist went out ... excited me was to meet one person after another who was new to me . I was like a naturalist who comes into a country ...
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... excited by these multi- tudinous impressions , from a hint or an incident or a happy invention , stories began to form themselves round certain of the most vivid of them . 54 I RETURNED to America and shortly afterwards was sent on a ...
... excited by these multi- tudinous impressions , from a hint or an incident or a happy invention , stories began to form themselves round certain of the most vivid of them . 54 I RETURNED to America and shortly afterwards was sent on a ...
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