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Genre/Form: | Erotic stories Electronic books Erotic fiction Autobiographical fiction Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Named Person: | Giovanni Paris |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Miller |
ISBN: | 155584698X 9780141399171 0141399171 9781555846985 |
OCLC Number: | 847629868 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Night people -- The secret life of insects -- The ballad of Easy Earl -- The crime of Marble Lesson. |
Responsibility: | Henry Miller ; introduction by Karl Shapiro ; preface by Anaïs Nin. |
Abstract:
Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930.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, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse, Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years.
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