Henry Miller
Author
Language
English
Description
"A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris." --
"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 A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930.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...
3) Black spring
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
"Ten autobiographical pieces that take Miller from his Brooklyn boyhood to the hard life of a literary bum in Paris." --
4) Plexus
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
""Plexus is the core volume in The Rosy Crucifixion: the volume which has the most complete description of Henry Miller's basic values, beliefs, opinions, judgments, both at the time of his 'Crucifixion' and at the later time when the trilogy was written. Plexus is simply the most marvelous volume of emotions and ideas and visions and nightmares about man and society in the twentieth century -- with art as the link perhaps, or as the soul's refuge...
5) Crazy cock
Author
Publisher
Grove Weidenfeld
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a writer bewildered by his independent wife and her female lover in Greenwich Village in the 1920s.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 161
Publisher
[New Directions]
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
Description
In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place-one of the most colorful in the United States-and of the extraordinary people Miller...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account documenting the six-year period of Henry Miller's life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his initial departure for Paris in 1928. The title comes from a sentence near the end of Miller's Tropic of Capricorn: "All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten....
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Description
Norman Mailer, without a doubt the most important literary figure of his generation, here celebrates the genius of "the greatest living American writer" from an earlier generation in an extended essay of unequalled brilliance as well as in a generous selection from Miller's work to point the way to "the center of the power of his writing."--Front flap.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 386
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
"This touching fable tells of Auguste, a famous clown who could make people laugh but who sought to impart to his audiences a lasting joy. Originally inspired by a series of circus and clown drawings by the cubist painter Femand Léger, Miller eventually used his own decorations to accompany the text in their stead. 'Undoubtedly, ' he says in his explanatory epilogue, 'it is the strangest story I have yet written'."--Page 4 of cover.