SUMMARY: 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
Tropic of Cancer
โ Scribed by Henry Miller
- Publisher
- Signet Classics;Harper Perennial
- Year
- 1995;2005
- Tongue
- Spanish
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0451526058
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โฆ Synopsis
This unforgettable novel of self-confession is a famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic enjoyment the lewd adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Now hailed as an American classic, this masterpiece was banned as obscene in the US for 27 years after its publication in Paris in 1934.
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Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, h
### No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but *Tropic of Cancer* is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate Am
{ Sept 2020 - epub revisions. Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 318 pages Published 1934 Grove Press (1994) Modern Library 100 Best Novels (1900-1998) Introduction by Karl Shapiro Preface