Long hailed as a truly liberating book, daring and uncompromising, Tropic of Cancer is a cornerstone of modern literature that asks us to reconsider everything we know about art, freedom, and morality. When it was first published in the US in 1961, it led to more than 60 obscenity trials until a historic ruling by the Supreme Court defined it as a work of literature.

Buy a discounted Paperback of Tropic of Cancer online from Australias leading online. Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s with unapologetic gusto, and is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, 'one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century.' The audiobook is narrated by acclaimed actor Campbell Scott. The Colossus of Maroussi (1941), a travel book of modern Greece, is considered by some critics his best work. until the early 1960s because of alleged obscenity. In 1930, he went to live in Paris and for the next ten years he mingled with impoverished expatriates and bohemian. Booktopia has Tropic of Cancer, Miller, Henry by Henry Miller. Miller's first two works, Tropic of Cancer (Paris, 1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (Paris, 1939), were denied publication in the U.S. Banned in the US and the UK for more than thirty years because it was considered pornographic, Tropic of Cancer continued to be distributed in France and smuggled into other countries. About the author (2005) Henry Miller was born in Brooklyn, New York. Written in the tradition of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, it relates Miller’s picaresque life as an impoverished expatriate in France in the early 1930s. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it features a starving American writer who lives a bohemian life among prostitutes, pimps, and artists. Tropic of Cancer, autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, published in France in 1934 and, because of censorship, not published in the United States until 1961. Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century - new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey Emin

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