![]() ![]() ![]() I read South Wind while we were vacationing and was totally intrigued by both its author and his portrait of the sybaritic cosmopolitan expatriate community in Capri at the turn of the twentieth century. I didn’t know anything about the island, so in my typical nerdy fashion I looked for books to read and discovered that there was a 1917 bestseller about Capri written by an author I’d never heard of named Norman Douglas. A friend recommended that we visit Capri while we were there. In 2013-2014 I spent a sabbatical year in Paris with my family and we bought discount airline tickets to Naples for the kids’ spring break. How did you first learn about him?īelieve it or not, this very serious book began with a little light vacation reading. Norman Douglas is far less famous now than he was in his lifetime. ![]()
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