The Legend of San Michele by Axel Munthe (1857–1949), a Swede by birth and a doctor by profession, has been regularly republished in various languages for more than 70 years. But what attracts the book is still a mystery. After all, the ability to master words and build a plot is too little for success. You need something special that is given only to a select few. Axel Munthe wrote an autobiographical story. True, the book can be called notes of a doctor, and notes of a mystic, and notes of a mockingbird... And notes of a child who did not want to become an adult. Read “The Legend of San Michele”, and perhaps you will be the one to solve its riddle.