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South Wind

Norman Douglas author Michael Schmidt editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:9th Mar '17

Should be back in stock very soon

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First published in 1917, Douglas's roman à clef masterpiece has lost none of its freshness.

An Anglican bishop, on recuperative leave from his African diocese, alights at the island of Nepenthe for a short stay on passage to England, and is soon caught in the midst of a wild and exuberant cast of fellow visitors and residents.

The bishop was feeling rather sea-sick. Confoundedly sea-sick, in fact. An Anglican bishop, on recuperative leave from his African diocese, alights at the island of Nepenthe for a short stay on his passage to England. Soon he is caught up in the wild and exuberant antics of visitors and residents. Norman Douglas's famed, and infamous, novel of Capri is a hedonistic journey and an unforgettable classic

A fascinating book, in the original sense of the adjective – spell-binding, mesmeric, and sometimes disturbingly prophetic... We leave it slightly drugged and mystified, yet somehow slighly more aware of things than when we started' -- Jan Morris

ISBN: 9781786690678

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

320 pages