Axel Munthe - Publications

Publications

The Story of San Michele overshadows Munthe's other publications, and includes material from some of his earlier work. His earlier work can be very difficult to find and often commands high prices, but at least one book has entered the public domain and is now freely available.

Other than his thesis, his first publications covered a number of travel discourses which appeared in the Stockholms Dagblad newspaper, and which described his experiences of relief work during the cholera epidemic in Naples. These discourses came out in book form in England in 1887as Letters From A Mourning City (Naples, Autumn, 1884), 289 pages, John Murray and Sons Publishers, London. This was translated from Swedish to English by Maude Valerie White. ASIN for the second edition, published in 1889, is B00087WVNO. Munthe translated this from Swedish to English himself.

Vagaries was initially published in London in 1898 and is now public domain . It was retitled Memories and Vagaries and a second edition printed in 1908. In 1930 there was a third edition, containing an added preface and a slightly different selection of stories with slightly different ordering.

Red Cross, Iron Cross was published anonymously, credited as "by a doctor in France", in London in 1916 with all proceeds going to the French Red Cross, and details some of his experiences during the First World War. A second edition, credited to Munthe, was published around 1930.