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The Dream and the Desert

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…short stories were collected as The Dream and the Desert (1953), and his later short stories were published as Orphan of the Desert (1967). His plays The Wall of Death (1960), The Sniper (1962), and The Two Lamps (1964) solidified his international reputation as a dramatist.
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