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Henry Miller


Born
in New York City, The United States
December 26, 1891

Died
June 07, 1980

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Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York City and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors.

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Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)

3.66 avg rating — 73,097 ratings — published 1934 — 408 editions
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Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic...

3.81 avg rating — 20,281 ratings — published 1939 — 260 editions
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Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion...

4.01 avg rating — 9,624 ratings — published 1949 — 156 editions
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Black Spring

3.82 avg rating — 5,364 ratings — published 1936 — 105 editions
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Quiet Days in Clichy

3.64 avg rating — 5,595 ratings — published 1956 — 71 editions
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The Colossus of Maroussi

3.97 avg rating — 4,677 ratings — published 1941 — 132 editions
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Plexus (The Rosy Crucifixio...

4.12 avg rating — 4,323 ratings — published 1952 — 118 editions
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Nexus (The Rosy Crucifixion...

4.11 avg rating — 4,076 ratings — published 1959 — 109 editions
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Big Sur and the Oranges of ...

4.03 avg rating — 3,208 ratings — published 1957 — 38 editions
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The Air-Conditioned Nightma...

3.82 avg rating — 3,360 ratings — published 1945 — 30 editions
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“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
Henry Miller

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

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