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| Has Cathcart become withdrawn?!? |
It is the summer of 1927. You are relaxing on your English "holiday," what we Americans refer to as "vacation," and upon opening the fresh issue of the venerable
London Mercury magazine, shown at
right, immediately dive into D.H. Lawrence's new short story, "The Man Who Loved Islands."
Lawrence biographer John Worthen has written that the story can be read as a
"critique of the idea of the isolated individual."
