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Miller, Henry - 1891–1980, American author, b. New York City. Miller sought to reestablish the freedom to live without the conventional restraints of civilization. His books are potpourris of sexual description, quasi-philosophical speculation, reflection on literature and society, surrealistic imaginings, and autobiographical incident. After living in Paris in the 1930s, he returned to

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Henry Miller and the Critics » Read Now
by George Wickes. 196 pgs.

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...-i- -ii- Henry Miller AND THE CRITICS EDITED BY George...Braun PREFACE WHEN THE NAME of the Henry Miller who is the subject of this book began...1926. Before long, however...
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Tropic of Cancer » Read Now
by Henry Miller. 288 pgs.

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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 freedom and...
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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 freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."
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The Colossus of Maroussi » Read Now
by Henry Miller. 244 pgs.

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This book about Greece, by the author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, is incandescent with his feeling for a great people and their past. 'It doesn't seem far from a miracle to me, the emergence of as friendly and joyful a book.'
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The Cosmological Eye » Read Now
by Henry Miller. 363 pgs.

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...THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE HENRY MILLER THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE NEW DIRECTIONS...sign of friendliness. "How are you, Miller!" he would say, just as though we hadnt...would come...
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Henry Miller: Years of Trial & Triumph, 1962-1964: The Correspondence of Henry Miller and Elmer Gertz » Read Now
by Elmer Gertz, Henry Miller, Felice Flanery Lewis,. 345 pgs.

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...Henry Miller: Years of Trial Triumph, 1962-1964 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF HENRY MILLER AND ELMER GERTZ EDITED BY ELMER GERTZ...Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Miller...
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The Maze in the Mind and the World: Labyrinths in Modern Literature (Chap. 5 "'Hypocrite Lecteur': Tropic of Cancer as Sexual Comedy") » Read Now
by Donald Gutierrez. 202 pgs.

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These essays probe the labyrinth as a metaphor for the acute sense of loss, disorientation, and alienation in a selection of 20th century writers such as James, Joyce, and Lawrence.
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Writers and Philosophers: A Sourcebook of Philosophical Influences on Literature (Discussion of Henry Miller begins on p. 139) » Read Now
by Edmund J. Thomas, Eugene G. Miller. 276 pgs.

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This book provides strong guidance to teachers and students of literature that gives them a greater understanding of the philosophical influences on more than 100 major literary figures. The text describes philosophical influences reflected in their writings as well as references to philosophical...
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This book provides strong guidance to teachers and students of literature that gives them a greater understanding of the philosophical influences on more than 100 major literary figures. The text describes philosophical influences reflected in their writings as well as references to philosophical works that are known to have played a part in their intellectual and aesthetic development.
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