Story Of San Michelle, The

Cracked front hinge, else Interior pages appear as unread with no reading wear and no marks in blue cloth covered black spine board displaying minimal surface/edge wear.

A new introduction by George N. Shuster. Private library plate FLEP and dated March 16, 1957. Ex libris from the library of Olive Ann Beech, the wife of Walter Beech, who established a new airplane company, with Lloyd Stearman, (Beech Aircraft) in Wichita, Kansas.

"These memoirs of a famous doctor disclose things of which only a veteran physician can speak." It is laden with choice anecdotes from the author's colorful career, with gruesome stories, almost unbelievable – from his practice.

Axel Munthe's memoirs. The Story of San Michele "is a series of overlapping vignettes, roughly but not entirely in chronological order. It contains reminiscences of many periods of his life. He associated with a number of celebrities of his times, including Jean-Martin Charcot, Louis Pasteur, Henry James, and Guy de Maupassant, all of whom figure in the book. He also associated with the very poorest of people, including Italian immigrants in Paris and plague victims in Naples, as well as rural people such as the residents of Capri, and the Nordic Laplanders. He was an unabashed animal lover, and animals figure prominently in several stories, perhaps most notably his alcoholic pet baboon, Billy"

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