Now hailed as an American classic, "Tropic of Cancer, " Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedomand [...]
In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus Pistorum) is that book. Here one finds Miller's characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celeb[...]
Struggling as a writer amid the bohemianism of 1920s Greenwich Village, well-born Tony Bring must suddenly deal with the knowledge that his beloved wife Hildred has taken her female friend, Vanya, as a lover[...]
Tired of his demeaning job and tempestuous marriage, Dion Moloch, an anti-Semite living in Brooklyn during the 1920s, escapes to the streets and battles against a world that threatens to destroy him[...]
The final novel of Miller's frank, autobiographical trilogy continues to use burlesque, fantasy and dream to portray the life of a struggling writer in pre-World War I New York[...]
The first novel of Miller's frank, autobiographical trilogy uses dream, fantasy, and burlesque to portray the life of a struggling writer in preWorld War I New York[...]
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, "The T[...]
Presents the contemporary writer's vision of American life, gleaned from his travels throughout the country during the early 1940's[...]
This selection of stories and essays shows again the wide range of mood, style and subject matter which Henry Miller's work commands. Expressing himself with exhilarating candor and freedom, writing 'from the heart' with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the reader directly in his thou[...]
A collection of stories and excerpts from longer works.
Here is the inimitable Henry Miller (1891-1980) speaking candidly about himself and his robust fiction-Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. In this enticing collection he argues convincingly for the things that have mattered in his full and exhilarating life. He and [...]