Tropic of Capricorn
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Grove/Weidenfeld,
[c1987].
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| Item Description: | "An Evergreen book." Copyrighted 1961 by Grove Press. 1st Evergreen ed. 1965. |
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| Physical Description: | 348 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0802151825 |
| Author Notes: | Henry Miller was born in New York City on December 26, 1891. Miller briefly attended City College of New York, but abandoned his university studies after only two months. In 1930 Miller traveled to Paris, where he stayed until 1940. During this period he was financed by his lover and fellow writer, Anaïs Nin, who helped him obtain a first printing of the celebrated and controversial Tropic of Cancer (1934); the book was banned in the United States at the time Grove Press printed it in 1961, which promptly initiated a costly, but successful, Supreme Court case to overrule the ban. In 1940 Miller returned to the United States, specifically to Big Sur, California where he would make his residence for the next several decades. Other notable works of Miller include Tropic of Capricorn (1939), The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus (1949), Plexus (1953), Nexus (1960), Black Spring (1936), and Crazy Cock (1960). Henry Miller died in 1980, in Pacific Palisades. |
