Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer and other works (36 books)

HENRY MILLER (1891-1980) was one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism.

Miller's novels achieved a candour -- particularly about sex -- that made them a liberating influence in mid-20th-century literature. He was also notable for a free and easy American style and a gift for comedy that sprang from his willingness to admit to feelings others conceal and an almost eager acceptance of the bad along with the good, the degrading along with the sublime. Because of their sexual frankness, his major works -- TROPIC OF CANCER (1934), TROPIC OF CAPRICORN (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (SEXUS, 1949; PLEXUS, 1953; and NEXUS, 1959), all based on his experiences in New York and Paris -- were banned in Britain and the U.S. until the 1960s, although they were widely known earlier from copies smuggled from France.

In addition to the fiction, Miller published literary criticism, travel memoirs and portraits of artists. His visit to Greece inspired THE COLOSSUS OF MAROUSSI (1941). In 1940-41 he toured the United States and wrote a sharply critical account, THE AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE (1945), which dwelt on the cost in human terms of mechanization and commercialization. Miller was also a noted watercolorist (see the reproductions in INSOMNIA), exhibiting internationally and writing about art. Last but not least, this torrent includes eight volumes of Miller's correspondence.

Lawrence Durrell said of Miller: "American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done." According to Erica Jong, "Miller is more mystic than pornographer. He uses the obscene to shock and to awaken, but once we are awake, he wants to take us to the stars." And Norman Mailer described him as "a wildwater of prose, a cataract, a volcano, a torrent, an earthquake, . . . a phenomenon of an avatar of literary energy."


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:


== FICTION ==

* Aller Retour New York (New Directions, 1993)
* Black Spring (Grove, 1963)
* Cosmological Eye, The (New Directions, 1961)
* Crazy Cock (Grove, 1991)
* Moloch: or, This Gentile World (Grove, 1992)
* Nexus [The Rosy Crucifixion 3] (Grove, 1965)
* Plexus [The Rosy Crucifixion 2] (Grove, 1965)
* Quiet Days in Clichy (Grove, 1965)
* Sexus [The Rosy Crucifixion 1] (Grove, 1965)
* Smile at the Foot of the Ladder (New Directions, 1974)
* Sunday After the War (New Directions, 1944)
* Tropic of Cancer (Grove, 1961)
* Tropic of Capricorn (Grove, 1961) -- ePUB + PDF
* Under the Roofs of Paris [Opus Pistorum] (Grove, 1983)

== NON-FICTION ==

* Air-Conditioned Nightmare, The (New Directions, 1970)
* Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (New Directions, 2011)
* Books in My Life, The (New Directions, 1969)
* Colossus of Maroussi, The (New Directions, 2010)
* Devil in Paradise, A (New Directions, 1993)
* Henry Miller on Writing (New Directions, 1964). Thomas Moore, ed.
* Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (New Directions, 1962)
* Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud (New Directions, 1962) -- ePUB + PDF
* Wisdom of the Heart, The (New Directions, 2016)
* World of Sex, The (Penguin, 2015)

== LETTERS ==

* Dear Brenda: Love Letters to Brenda Venus (Morrow, 1986). G. Sindell, ed. -- PDF
* Henry Miller's Hamlet Letters (Capra, 1988). Michael Hargraves, ed. -- PDF
* Lawrence Durrell & HM: Correspondence (Dutton, 1963). G. Wickes, ed. -- PDF
* Letters from HM to Hoki Tokuda Miller (Freundlich, 1986). J. Howard, ed. -- PDF
* Letters to Emil (New Directions, 1989). George Wickes, ed. -- PDF
* Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & HM (Harcourt, 1987). G. Stuhlmann, ed.
* Selected Letters of HM and James Laughlin (Norton, 1995). G. Wickes, ed. -- PDF
* Writer & Critic: A Correspondence with Henry Miller (Louisiana, 1968) -- PDF

== OTHER ==

* Henry Miller Reader, The (New Directions, 1969). Lawrence Durrell, ed.
* Insomnia, or The Devil at Large (Doubleday, 1974) -- PDF
* Just Wild About Harry: A Play (New Directions, 1963) -- PDF
* Nothing But the Marvelous: Wisdom of HM (Capra, 1999). B. Fielding, ed. -- PDF

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