The Story of San Michele

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John Murray Press, 2010 M10 10 - 300 páginas
This ‘dream-laden and spooked’ (Marina Warner, London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century. Munthe spent many years working as a doctor in Southern Italy, labouring unstintingly during typhus, cholera and earthquake disasters. It was during this period that he came across the ruined Tiberian villa of San Michele, perched high above the glittering Bay of Naples on Capri. With the help of Mastro Nicola and his three sons, and with only a charcoal sketch roughly drawn on a garden wall to guide them, Munthe devoted himself to rebuilding the house and chapel. Over five long summers they toiled under a sapphire-blue sky, their mad-cap project leading them to buried skeletons and ancient coins, and to hilarious encounters with a rich cast of vividly-drawn villagers. The Story of San Michele reverberates with the mesmerising hum of a long, hot Italian summer. Peopled with unforgettable characters, it is as brilliantly enjoyable and readable today as it was upon first publication. The book quickly became an international bestseller and has now been translated into more than 30 languages; it is today an established classic, and sales number in the millions.
 

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Title Copyright From the Prefaces to Previous Editions
Youth
Quartier Latin
Avenue de Villiers
A Fashionable Doctor
Patients
Château Rameaux
Lapland
Vicomte Maurice
John
A Journey to Sweden
Doctors
La Salpêtrière
Hypnotism
Insomnia
The Miracle of SantAntonio

Naples
Back to Paris
The CorpseConductor
Madame Réquin
The Giant
Mamsell Agata
Piazza di Spagna
More Doctors
Grand Hôtel
The Little Sisters of the Poor
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Born in Sweden in 1857, Axel Munthe trained to be a doctor in Paris at a precociously early age, establishing a fashionable practice (Maupassant and Strindberg were his patients) and quickly gaining an international reputation. He became the friend of royalty; Tsar Nicholas asked him to look after his son - Rasputin was their second choice.

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