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Maria Bloshteyn
The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon gives invaluable insight into the early careers of the Villa Seurat writers and testifies to Dostoevsky’s influence on twentieth-century literature.
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Jennifer Cowe
Killing the Buddha examines the influence of Zen Buddhism throughout Henry Miller’s life and work, specifically charting the evolution of key Buddhist concepts through close readings of his novels, letters…
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Finn Jensen
Henry Miller and Modernism: The Years in Paris, 1930-1939 represents a major reevaluation of Henry Miller, focusing on the Paris texts from 1930 to 1939. Finn Jensen analyzes Miller in…
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Illustrations in this edition are by Australian artist and filmmaker Garry Shead.
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Second volume in the Rosy Crucifixion series. More about Henry and June, also chronicling the author’s travels to the deep South, and his work as an encyclopedia salesmen (after he’d…
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The social function of the creative personality is a recurrent theme with Henry Miller, and this book is perhaps his most poignant and concentrated analysis of the artist’s dilemma.
I always carry over 40,000 gold francs about with me in my belt. They weight about 40 pounds, and I am beginning to get dysentery from the load.
Investigates how reformers, conservatives, and radicals used portraiture to connect with supporters and build identity in Victorian politics.
A melo-melo in seven scenes, Just Wild About Harryis Henry Miller’s only excursion into playwriting.Harryis pure Miller, welling up from the same abundant love of life and freedom from convention…
In 1935, the author set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. This title describes the trip and his return journey on a Dutch steamer…
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
Henry Miller’s Nexus was censored fifty years ago, while Miller and his publishers fought for freedom of speech. Nexus II was never published, and relooks at his first trip to…
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A perfect expression of Miller’s moral perspective as well as one of his outstanding demonstrations of narrative skill. It provides a wonderful cinematic view of two indomitable egotists in deadly…
Looking back to author’s bohemian life in 1930s Paris, when he was an obscure, penniless writer, this title is a love letter to a city. It describes nocturnal wanderings through…
The first book of a trilogy of novels known collectively as The Rosy Crucifixion . It is autobiographical and tells the story of Miller’s first tempestuous marriage and his relentless…
In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs…
Set in the colourful world of Greenwich Village in the 1920s, this semi-autobiographical novel follows the story of Tony Bring, a struggling writer whose bourgeois upbringing and inclinations collide with…
Uncovered in 1988 by Miller’s biographer Mary V. Dearborn, Moloch is based on the years of Miller’s first marriage to June. Set in the rapidly changing New York of the…
Henry Miller called The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder his most singular story.
Trapped in a bizarre menage-a-trois with his fiery wife Mona and her lover Stasia, the author finds his life descending into chaos. He decides to leave America and sail for…
The author called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his rosy crucifixion. In this volume, he looks back…
Explores a mans desperate desire for freedom. It finds him in the midst of his stormy marriage to the volatile, duplicitous Mona, and joyfully quitting his dreary job for a…
A title, in which the author argues that sex is at the heart of his writing because it is at the heart of life - a vital force as essential…
This collection, first published by New Directions in 1939, contains a number of Henry Miller’s most important shorter prose writings.
The best of Miller’s chapbooks bound into a single roaring volume.
An essential collection of writings, bursting with Henry Miller’s exhilarating candor and wisdom
Banned in the US and the UK for more than thirty years because it was considered pornographic, this book features a starving American writer who lives a bohemian life among…
The author explores the sources of his early life in New York and undertakes to define a view of his country.
His stories and essays celebrate those rare individuals (famous and obscure) whose creative resilience and mere existence oppose the mechanization of minds and souls.
Presents the best of Miller’s contributions to Stroker magazine, which included prose, letters, and drawings ranging in subject matter from his daily activities to Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Nobel Prize acceptance…
Paul Jahshan
Henry Miller is one of the least stylistically understood modern writers. Having been dubbed a Zen saint and ostracized as a happy pornographer, Miller is now relegated to the museum…
Caroline Blinder
In this re-evaluation of Miller as a radical writer, Blinder considers not only notions of obscenity and sexuality, but also the emergence of psychoanalysis, surrealism, automatic writing, and the aesthetics…
James Decker
Presenting fresh insights into some of the most challenging writings of last century, this provocative study explores the work of Henry Miller, positioning him as a stylistic pioneer whose place…
The second sensational volume in the ‘Rosy Crucifixion’ trilogy from the controversal and brilliant Henry Miller.
