Tropic of Cancer - Softcover

Miller, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614278628 ISBN 13: 9781614278627

Publisher: Martino Fine Books, 2015

Synopsis

2015 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Tropic of Cancer" has been described as "notorious for its candid sexuality" and as responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature". It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France, but this edition was banned in the United States. Its re-publication in 1961 in the U.S. by Grove Press led to obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography in the early 1960s. In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the book non-obscene. It is regarded as an important work of 20th-century literature. The Modern Library considers it one of the best 100 Novels ever published.

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Review:

‘A ranting, randy book carried along by a deep, sensual enjoyment of living.’ Sunday Times

‘Tropic of Cancer is a great prophetic book, a warning of what deadens life, an affirmation that it can yet be lived in an age whose sterile non-cultures seek to thwart all mainsprings of fertility. Miller reveals himself as a battered faun, a crafty innocent, a lonely, lazy, sometimes fearful, always steadfast, worshipper of life’ Spectator

From the Back Cover:

" The best pages are white hot and inspired, both funny and terrible... Miller can communicate, and induce in the reader, a delicious delight in the fact of being alive."
ROBERT NYE

'I have a bottle between my legs and I am shoving the corkscrew in. Mrs. Wren has her mouth parted expectantly. The wine is splashing between my legs, the sun is splashing through the bay window, and inside my veins there is a bubble and a splash of a thousand crazy things that commence to gush out of me... With the bottle between my legs and the sun splashing through the window I experience once again the splendour of those miserable days when I first arrived in Paris... the feeling of suffocation, the fat cockroaches, the drinking and carousing...'

"'Tropic of Cancer' is a ranting, randy book carried along by a deep, sensual enjoyment of living."
SUNDAY TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Martino Fine Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1614278628
• ISBN 13: 9781614278627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330