Tropic of Cancer (Miller, Henry)

by Anais Nin (Preface), Anais Nin (Preface), Henry Miller (Author), Karl Shapiro (Introduction)

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1994
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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 frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s.

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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 frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 318
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 06 Jan 1994
ISBN 10: 0802131786
ISBN 13: 9780802131782

Media Reviews

There is an eager vitality and exuberance to the writing which is exhilarating; a rush of spirit into the world as though all the sparkling wines have been uncorked at once; we watchfully hear the language skip, whoop and wheel across Miller's page. --William H. Gass, The New York Times Book Review

Here is a book which, if such a thing were possible, might restore our appetite for the fundamental realities. --Anais Nin

American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done. -Lawrence Durrell

One of the most remarkable, most truly original authors of this or any age. -Saturday Review

Undeniably salacious but nevertheless serious and important literature, Miller's novel with its ribald sexuality still provokes (and makes feminist hairs stand on end.) --Victoria A. Brownworth, The Baltimore Sun