The Story of San Michele

The Story of San Michele is a book of memoirs by Swedish physician Axel Munthe. The book is a series of overlaying vignettes, roughly but not entirely in chronological order. It has reminiscences of many periods of Munthe’s life. He associated with a number of celebrities of his time, including Jean-Martin Charcot, Louis Pasteur, Henry James, and Guy de Maupassant, all of whom figure in the book.