South Wind (novel)

South Wind (novel)

"South Wind" is a 1917 novel by British author Norman Douglas. [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1922 "South Wind",] "Literary Encyclopedia.] It is Douglas' most famous book. [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9031049/Norman-Douglas Norman Douglas,] "Encyclopaedia Britannica".] It is set on an imaginary island called Nepenthe, located off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The novel's discussion of moral and sexual issues caused considerable debate. [Ousby, Ian, 1996, "Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English", Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521436273, page 118.]

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* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4508 "South Wind"] at Project Gutenberg.


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