The 1920s also proved something of a golden decade for Umberto Fracchia as an author of novels and short stories. His second full-length novel "Angela", published in 1923 at Milan, was the most commercially successful of them all. Emilio Cecchi acknowledged "Angela" as signalling [Fracchia's] arrival among the Mondatori authors, observing that its remarkable success was confirmed by its having been translated into several languages. (Mondatori was Italy's largest publisher, known for "picking winners".) Nearly a century on, however, there is a sense among some critics that "Angela" has not aged particularly well. Il giudizio (con relativo ridimensionamento, ma anche con note positive e istanze di rivalutazione) è di Felice Del Beccaro, in Letteratura italiana - I Contemporanei, volume terzo, Milano, Marzorati, 1974, pp. 217-218.
