Author(s): Axel Munthe

Biography, Autobiography, Memoirs, Letters, Interviews

The book is a highly impressionistic, semi-fictional account of an extraordinary life, an amalgam of memoirs, personal philosophy and tall tales.
Axel Munthe was a fashionable physician in Paris who built one of the best-loved houses in the world, San Michele, on the Isle of Capri, on the site of the villa of the emperor Tiberius. Written with intelligence and verve, this autobiography tells tales of buried treasure in Italy, legendary creatures in Lapland, and the cold countesses and kindly whores of Naples—enough material, as one critic put it, "to furnish writers of short stories with plots for the rest of their lives."

Fair to good condition. Page before the title page is missing. Tanning on page edges. Some scuffing on cover.