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By A. Livezey - May 13, 2005

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A seemingly impenetrable solitude permeates human life in D. H. Lawrence's two short stories, "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and "The Horse Dealer's Daughter". Inside Lawrence's fictional worlds, the thematic isolation of individuals from one another (often compounded by a profound remoteness from one's own self) situates itself as a paradoxically…

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