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1. Old Calabria by Norman, 1868-1952 Douglas | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2005-01-01)
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2. South wind / by Norman Douglas. Edition, Illustrated by John Austen. Vols. 1 & 2 by Norman (1868-1952) Douglas | |
Hardcover:
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(1929)
Asin: B0010DXJ54 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
3. Alone by Norman, 1868-1952 Douglas | |
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(2005-01-01)
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4. Fountains in the SandRambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman, 1868-1952 Douglas | |
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(2005-05-01)
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5. Biography - Douglas, (George) Norman (1868-1952): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team | |
Digital: 8
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(2003-01-01)
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6. Norman Douglas, 1868-1952;: Tabulation of books and other writings by or about him. Also, association items in the personal collection of his younger son, Robin by Robin Douglas | |
Unknown Binding: 36
Pages
(1954)
Asin: B0007G1272 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
7. Siren Land by Norman Douglas | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(1983-06)
list price: US$14.95 Isbn: 0436132044 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description He was born in 1868, mid-Victorian, and received a classical education. To a lad of spirit and imagination, England was no place to stay. So he shipped to Italy and there remained, steeped in the land and tradition, 100 years ahead of his time. In books such as SIREN LAND, he wrote of the timeless things that come to us from antiquity. His books are erudite and humane, rather like a seminar with a favorite professor. But not dry! Douglas was a confirmed hedonist, and he milked the sensual pleasures for all they were worth. By 1952, the year in which he died he had his fill. Not suprisingly, he killed himself. Customer Reviews (1)
Capri and Sorrento: an elegy to their past and present |
8. Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas | |
Hardcover: 428
Pages
(1971-08)
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9. Lunch with Elizabeth David: A Novel by Roger Williams | |
Hardcover: 342
Pages
(2000-03)
list price: US$24.95 -- used & new: US$3.36 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0786707070 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Amazon.com The first section details the unsentimental education--classical,culinary, sexual--of one Eric Wolton, a working-class Londonercelebrating his 13th birthday in Naples in 1911. This fictional figureis promptly "ravished by Norman Douglas the length and breadth ofCalabria." Man and boy take their pleasures lightly indeed as theyvoyage across Italy's boot (which Douglas went on to celebrate in Old Calabria). And inlater years, Eric, now resigned to a dull policeman's existence,recalls that summer as "the best time in his life." In 1951, however,he is abruptly summoned to the island of Capri, where Douglas and hisfashionable entourage--including Harold Acton, Graham Greene, andGracie Fields--are joining Elizabeth David for a farewell lunch. In the novel's second part, Williams veers more decisively in thedirection of fiction. The scenario goes like this: In the late winterof 1946, Cherry Ingram's mother had waited upon Elizabeth David in ahotel in Ross-on-Wye. (In the novel she is alone; in reality, she wasthere with a lover, and famously described the food as "produced with akind of bleak triumph which amounted almost to a hatred of humanity andhumanity's needs.") Cut to the late 1980s, which find Cherry deliveringa whitefish to a "Mrs. David"--bibulous, overbearing, and suspicious ofthe finny creature's provenance. This chance encounter leads Cherryinto her own past, which turns out to dovetail not only with David'sbut with that of Norman Douglas and his young paramour. Williams's novel wonderfully evokes the glories of the Mediterranean,not to mention its multiple pleasures. It is perhaps less successful atsplicing Eric and Cherry into the historical canvas: the drama of theirlives inevitably pales beside Douglas's high-cholesterol existence, orDavid's. That said, the good parts are truly delicious and well worthsampling. --Ruthie Petrie In that moment, too, Elizabeth David enters the enchanted circle of Norman Douglas's friends, among them Graham Greene, Gracie Fields, Nancy Cunard, and, less famously but more significantly, Eric Walton, the man who has known him as Uncle Norman since 1910, when a boyish scrape during a fireworks display at Crystal Palace introduced a working-class kid from North London to the intriguing, worldly gentleman who would take him to the sun-drenched shores of southern Italy. >From idyllic Mediterranean days in Calabria before World War I through the hardships and tensions of Vichy France to the drudgery of England's recovery from World War II and finally the affluence of high-living contemporary London, this evocative novel artfully charts a journey that ends with a perfect - and long-haunting - lunch on the island of Capri. Customer Reviews (2)
Haunting..... The main focus of the book is not Douglas, as the book jacket suggests, but the effect he had on other lives. The protagonist in the first section of the book, which takes place mostly before WWI and includes Douglas as a character, is a 12-year old boy from the East End of London named Eric. The main character in the second part of the book, which takes place in 1990s England, is a woman named Cherry whose mother served as maid for Elizabeth David for a short while during WWII. Cherry marries John, Eric's grandson, and a London fish shop owner. Cherry sometimes helps John deliver fish, and eventually develops her own catering business. Food associations lead Cherry to discover Elizabeth David and Norman Douglas.Her discoveries have a profound effect on her life. LUNCH WITH ELIZABETH DAVID is a hauting book about the long-lasting effects of other people's lives.
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