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South Wind by Norman Douglas, unknown edition, Edition Notes First edition. Woolf, Douglas, A19a. The first two lines on page are correctly imposed; the dust jacket is printed in brown. Complete summary of George Norman Douglas' South Wind. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of South Wind. Norman Douglas. For the New Zealand politician, see Norman Douglas (politician). / ; George Norman Douglas (8 December - 7 February ) was a British writer, now best known for his novel South Wind. His travel books, such as Old Calabria (), were also appreciated for the quality of their writing.
South Wind is a novel by British author Norman Douglas. It is Douglas's most famous book and his only success as a novelist. It is set on an imaginary island called Nepenthe, located off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea, a thinly fictionalized description of Capri 's residents and visitors. The narrative concerns twelve days during which Thomas Heard, a bishop returning to England from his diocese in Africa, yields his moral vigour to various influences. The novel by British author Norman Douglas was his most famous book and his only success as a novelist. IN Homer’s Odyssey, nepenthe is the drug administered by Helen to treat the sorrows of Menelaus’s guests after the Trojan War. It is also the name Norman Douglas chose for his fictional island off the south coast of Italy where he set his hedonistic novel South Wind. British author Norman Douglas (–) traveled widely, and the books inspired by his rambles in Tunisia, Austria, and Italy are noted for their erudition and insights. A longtime resident of Capri, he used the island as the model for the fictional setting of his best-known work, South Wind.
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