The Four Winds of Love

Series of novels by Compton Mackenzie (published 1937–1945)

The Four Winds of Love is the overall title for a series of six novels written by Compton Mackenzie, The East Wind of Love (1937), The South Wind of Love (1938), The West Wind of Love (1940), West to North (1942), The North Wind of Love, Book 1 (1944) and The North Wind of Love, Book 2 (1945), which taken together constitute a major fictional chronicle of the first forty years of the twentieth century. The main protagonist of the hexalogy is the semi-autobiographical character of John Ogilvie.

Sources

  • Linklater, Andro Compton Mackenzie: A Life The Hogarth Press (1992, London)
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Works by Compton Mackenzie
Novels
  • Carnival (1912)
  • Sinister Street (1913)
  • Guy and Pauline (1915)
  • Sylvia Scarlett (1918)
  • Sylvia and Michael (1919)
  • Poor Relations (1919)
  • The Vanity Girl (1920)
  • Rich Relatives (1921)
  • Coral (1925)
  • Fairy Gold (1926)
  • Rogues and Vagabonds (1927)
  • Vestal Fire (1927)
  • Extraordinary Women (1928)
  • Extremes Meet (1928)
  • The Three Couriers (1929)
  • April Fools (1930)
  • Buttercups and Daisies (1931)
  • Our Street (1931)
  • Water on the Brain (1933)
  • The Darkening Green (1934)
  • Figure of Eight (1936)
  • The Four Winds of Love (1937)
  • The Red Tapeworm (1941)
  • The Monarch of the Glen (1941)
  • Keep the Home Guard Turning (1943)
  • Whisky Galore (1947)
  • Hunting the Fairies (1949)
  • The Rival Monster (1952)
  • Ben Nevis Goes East (1954)
  • Thin Ice (1956)
  • Rockets Galore (1957)
  • The Lunatic Republic (1959)
  • Mezzotint (1961)
  • The Stolen Soprano (1965)
  • Paper Lives (1966)
Adaptations