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George Norman Douglas was born to Scottish parents at Thurigen in Austria on 8 December 1868. His father was originally from Tilquhillie on Deeside, and this was where Douglas was brought up after his father's early death. He received part of his school education at Karlsruhe in Germany, and in 1894 he entered the Foreign Office as a diplomat, serving in St Petersburg before taking early retirement to live on Capri. He was fascinated by Italy, and by classical mythology, and was a gifted writer of travel books in addition to his novels of which the best known, "South Wind" (1917), has Capri as its setting. His first book, "Unprofessional Tales" (1901), was co-written with his wife under the pseudonym "Normyx". "Looking Back" (1933) and "Late Harvest" (1946) are autobiographical works. He died on 9 February 1952.
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Unprofessional Tales (1901); The Forestal Conditions of Capri (1904); Three Monographs (1906); Some Antiquarian Notes (1907); Siren Land (1911); Fountains in the Sand (1912); Old Calabria (1915); London Street Games (1916); South Wind (1917); They Went (1920); Alone (1921); Together (1923); D. H. Laurence and Maurice Magnus (1924); Experiments (1925); Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology (1927); In the Beginning (1928); Some Limericks (1928); One Day (1929); Capri (1930); How about Europe? (1930); Paneros (1931); Summer Islands (1931); Looking Back (1933); An Almanac (1945); Late Harvest (1946); Footnote on Capri (1952); Venus in the Kitchen (1952).
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