'Another lovely book called "The Story of San Michele".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
'1944 My Favourite:
Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele"
Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols
Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia
Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932:
'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -- writing --
only the wrong side of the carpet [...] this passion, which has been so well advised, lands me
tonight in a book like the reek of stale cabbage and cheap face powder -- a book called The
Story of San Michele by [Axel] Munthe [1929] [...] A book more porous with humbug, reeking
more suddenly with insincerity, I've never read. I'm at page 50 [...] And I'm reading Stella
Benson [Tobit Transplanted (1931)]: with pleasure'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
'From Axel Munthe's "San Michele": "Imprisoned monkeys, so long as they are in company, live on the whole a supportable life. They are so busy finding out all that is going on inside and outside their cage, so full of intrigue and gossip, that they hardly have time to be unhappy".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper