Axel Munthe: The Story of San Michele [2004] paperback Condition:Good which provides the platform for

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Axel Munthe: The Story of San Michele [2004] paperback Condition:Good which provides the platform forThis '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