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The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe - read in 2005. ... beautiful editions of the famous classics, what keeps me renewing is finding these hitherto unknown (to me) treasures: The Story of San Michele, A Visit to Don Octavio, the Patrick Leigh-Fermor books, etc.
Although it probably is just a strange quirk of my nature, and the fact that as ... The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe was first published in 1929. I have no idea if these are all pre-1923, but they are my favorite classics:
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
Pride and Prejudice
She
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
Little Women
Letters from Earth
ETA that I just checked the B&N list of classics and found a few more:
... The Story of San Michele! One of my personal all-time favorites! It inspired the beginnings of a love of Italy that has never faded. I read it in 1965 when the head of the English Dept. at a local college gave it to me (I worked there after school when I was in high school) and told me it was < ... Oh! The Story of San Michele was wonderful! I read it in 1966 and it sparked a lifelong love of Italy.
It's been too long; I need to reread it. US Non-Fiction
1. The Story of San Michele, Axel Munthe 171 copies on LT
2. The Strange Death of President Harding, Gaston B. Means and May Dixon Thacker 9 copies
3. Byron, André Maurois 18 copies
4. The Adams Family, James Truslow Adams 24 copies
5. Lone ... US Non-Fiction
1. Education of a Princess, Grand Duchess Marie 24 copies on LT
2. The Story of San Michele, Axel Munthe 154 copies
3. Washington Merry-Go-Round, anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen) 0 copies
4. Boners: Being a Collection of Schoolboy Wisdom, ... ... in turn means a point at which a significant change occurs, I would say the following few novels quality in my life:
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe - read as a senior in h.s. after having a traumatic experience with reading literature for class; showed me that a literary ... ... About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Soft Voices Whispering by Adrienne Dines
The Whispering Years by Bob Harris
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
Make a Great Wedding Speech by Philip Calvert ... lots of time in libraries tracking down Dracula. Most of it takes place in England and Eastern Europe.
Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe is written for teenagers, but is a fun read for adults too. The narrator has some of Buffy's style/language.
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz is about ... ... a desert island, along with Shakespeare, the Bible, Pride and Prejudice, Roget's Thesaurus (what can I say, I love words), The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe, and Lord of the Rings trilogy. Needless to say, I'd probably starve before I ran out of reading material, since I'd be too ... ... because it made me think about God and faith and the unbearably tragic losses of life in an entirely different way.
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe - OK, I lied. My Antonia wasn't exactly the "first" classic I read after the disaster of An American Tragedy. In fact, I read The S ...
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