South Wind

It is Douglas's most famous book[2] and his only success as a novelist.[3] It is set on an imaginary island called Nepenthe, located off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea,[1] 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. Philosophical hedonism pervades much of Douglas's writing,[3] and the novel's discussion of moral and sexual issues caused considerable debate.