Tropic of Cancer
Book Description
The classic, candid, and often shocking novel of ex-pat Paris in the 1930s has spoken to generations of readers while also being part of the literary underground for nearly three decades, remaining unpublished in the United States until 1961. It is now presented in a high-quality ebook edition with active Table of Contents and proper formatting-such as retaining Miller's breaks within chapters fro...
MoreThe classic, candid, and often shocking novel of ex-pat Paris in the 1930s has spoken to generations of readers while also being part of the literary underground for nearly three decades, remaining unpublished in the United States until 1961. It is now presented in a high-quality ebook edition with active Table of Contents and proper formatting-such as retaining Miller's breaks within chapters from the printed original that show a transition (when collapsed in other ebooks, this makes it harder to follow the narrative and timeline as the author intended). Please look for the quality digital edition from Quaint Press.
Henry Valentine Miller (1891-1980) was an accomplished author and artist. Born in New York City, he lived much of his life in Paris, France and Big Sur, California. He is the author of Tropic of Capricorn, Black Spring, The Colossus of Maroussi, and Crazy Cock, among other novels and writings. Most noted for his semi-autobiographical works that pushed the envelope of the novel form and of social acceptance, this classic book Tropic of Cancer helped to establish U.S. First Amendment law in 1964 when it was declared by the United States Supreme Court to be not obscene. Its legal imprimatur as literature virtually sounded the starting gun on the sexual revolution and the freedom in fiction known in the U.S. today.
George Orwell once called Miller "the only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. Even if that is objected to as an overstatement, it will probably be admitted that Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive acceptor of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses." No book reflects this truth more than Tropic of Cancer.
If reading this book feels like a vaguely familiar experience, it is because the book was passed around furtively in formative years-or because so much literature today stands on its shoulders.
Publisher | Quaint Press |
Binding | Kindle Edition (126 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | 190 |
ISBN-10 | B008OYDZBU |
Publication Date | 07/24/2012 |
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