South Wind
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers of English literature who enjoy satire and witty dialogue
- Readers interested in Mediterranean settings and exotic atmosphere
- Students and enthusiasts of early twentieth-century British fiction
- Readers comfortable with discursive narrative rather than strong plot
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting tight plotting and a clear main storyline
- Readers with limited English who struggle with long stretches of dialogue
- Readers sensitive to period attitudes and wishing for a modern introduction
Reading tips
- First map out the characters and their relationships; dense dialogue is easier to follow that way.
- Read the book's disquisitions as part of character, not as the author's final verdict.
- Mark passages where period attitudes clash with yours, and return to them after finishing.
- Read in instalments, focusing each time on one or two characters or a single conversation.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Norman Douglas (1868–1952) was a British novelist and travel writer. Born in Thüringen, Austria, to a Scottish family, he once worked for the British Foreign Office and later lived for many years on the Italian island of Capri. He made his name with the satirical novel South Wind (1917), while his travel books Old Calabria, Alone and Fountains in the Sand are known for their elegant, erudite prose, and he is regarded as one of the finest travel writers of the twentieth century. Four of his works are held here, covering both fiction and travel writing, with subjects drawn largely from the landscapes, customs and history of the Mediterranean and North Africa, written in a relaxed and witty style. Public information is limited, but the works themselves suffice to show his place in travel literature. He died on Capri in 1952.
