http://41loveletters.com/1934/08/19/letter-10/ R. H. Swinney to Ruth Erlanger, 1934 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:43:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://41loveletters.com/1934/08/19/letter-10/comment-page-1/#comment-14 C Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:37:54 +0000 http://www.43loveletters.com/1934/08/19/letter-10/#comment-14 [1] Might be worth mentioning that <i>The Story of San Michele</i> is the autobiography of a doctor, and that it was a world-wide bestseller -- in 1930, just a year after its publication, it was going into its 17th American edition --translated into over 40 languages. Both aspects seem germane to Harold's reading it -- the former for obvious reasons, and the latter I suppose just to contextualize it for modern readers. I should think it was the <i>Da Vinci Code</i> of its day. [1] Might be worth mentioning that The Story of San Michele is the autobiography of a doctor, and that it was a world-wide bestseller — in 1930, just a year after its publication, it was going into its 17th American edition –translated into over 40 languages. Both aspects seem germane to Harold’s reading it — the former for obvious reasons, and the latter I suppose just to contextualize it for modern readers. I should think it was the Da Vinci Code of its day.

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