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Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years.
A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence Durrell. In 1958, when Henry Miller was elected to membership in the American Institute of Arts and Letters, the citation described him as: "The veteran author of many books whose originality and richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his subject matter. His boldness of approach and intense curiosity concerning man and nature are unequalled in the prose literature of our times." It is most fitting that this anthology of "the best" of Henry Miller should have been assembled by one of the first among Miller’s contemporaries to recogniz...
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
Presents the life and works of Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Includes a chronology.
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Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and how he learned to draw on his own experience.
Bohemian, egoist and prophet of sensualism, Henry Miller remains to many writers and readers a literary lion. Born in Brooklyn in 1891, son of a tailor of German extraction, Miller would embrace a freewheeling existence that carried him through umpteen jobs and sexual encounters, providing rich source material for the novels he would write. Greenwich Village and Paris in the 1920s offered rich pickings, as did Miller's ten-year affair with Anais Nin. But he was 69 before Tropic of Cancer was legally published in the US and made him famous, almost 30 years from its composition and long after his peers had devoured it in contraband French editions. Robert Ferguson reveals Miller as a amalgam of vulnerability and insouciance, who endured thirty years of official opprobrium but won the respect of Orwell, T.S. Eliot and Lawrence Durrell, and readers by the thousand. 'This impressive biography [is] good, dirty fun.' Observer 'Engaging and perceptive.' Economist 'Lively and entertaining.' J.G. Ballard
Nothing But The Marvelous (Expanded) Wisdoms of Henry Miller Henry Miller and Blair Fielding (editor) A gathering of Henry Miller's insights-memorable and revealing, profound and profane, angry and joyous, poetic and philosophical-covering a multitude of subjects, from "Aging" to "Universal Law." Drawn from the full scope of Miller's writings-the early, notorious "Tropic of Cancer, to "Book of Friends and "The Hamlet Letters.
A collection of prose by Henry Miller