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Henry Miller (1) (1891–1980)

Author of Tropic of Cancer

For other authors named Henry Miller, see the disambiguation page.

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Works by Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer (1934) 8,779 copies
Tropic of Capricorn (1939) 3,630 copies
Sexus (1949) 1,745 copies
Black Spring (1936) 1,300 copies
The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) — Author — 1,235 copies
Plexus (1953) 1,048 copies
Nexus (1960) 979 copies
Quiet Days in Clichy (1956) 788 copies
Under the roofs of Paris (1983) 616 copies
The Books in My Life (1963) 471 copies
Crazy Cock (1991) 418 copies
Henry Miller on Writing (1964) 353 copies
Time of the Assassins (1962) 351 copies
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (1962) — Author — 323 copies
The World of Sex (1940) 185 copies
Moloch (1992) 178 copies
The Cosmological Eye (1939) 170 copies
Remember to Remember (1947) 114 copies
Nights of love and laughter (1955) 112 copies
Tropico del Cancro Tropico del Capricorno (1961) — Author — 98 copies
Letters to Anaïs Nin (1965) 96 copies
Sunday After the War (1944) 70 copies
Lire aux cabinets (1952) 68 copies
My Life and Times (1972) 63 copies
Sextet: Six Essays (1977) 61 copies
The Intimate Henry Miller (1959) 51 copies
Letters to Emil (1944) 49 copies
My Bike and Other Friends (1978) 44 copies
Sexus. 2 (1965) 42 copies
Sexus. 1 (1965) 42 copies
On Turning Eighty (1972) 39 copies
To paint is to love again (1960) 38 copies
Art and Outrage: Correspondence About Henry Miller (1959) — Contributor — 33 copies
PLEXUS 1 (1953) 24 copies
Reflections (1981) 20 copies
Paris 1928: Nexus II (2010) 18 copies
PLEXUS 2 (1965) 16 copies
Opere vol. 1 (1992) 16 copies
First impressions of Greece (1973) 14 copies
Henry Miller--The Paintings: A Centennial Retrospective (1991) — Illustrator — 11 copies
Mademoiselle Claude (1978) 9 copies
The Waters Reglitterized (1950) 9 copies
Between Heaven and Hell (1961) 8 copies
Greece (1964) 8 copies
The Best of Henry Miller (1960) 8 copies
Red Notebook (1958) 7 copies
Echolalia (1945) 6 copies
Horoscope (2000) 6 copies
Why Abstract? (1974) 6 copies
Varda, the master builder (1947) 4 copies
SELECTED PROSE 1 (1965) 4 copies
The immortal bard (1973) 4 copies
Henry Miller's People (1993) 3 copies
BEZALEL SCHATZ (1949) 2 copies
MI VIDA Y MI TIEMPO (1980) 2 copies
Selected Prose 2 (1966) 2 copies
Love Between The Sexes (1978) 2 copies
Myrd morderen 2 copies
The Stripteaser (1953) — Contributor — 2 copies
Maurizius Forever (1959) 2 copies
EVERGREEN REVIEW #9 (1959) 1 copy
Exus 1 copy
Sexus 3.del (1974) 1 copy
Breve 1 copy
Miscellanea 1 copy
Miller Henry 1 copy
Ét liv er nok (1991) 1 copy
Un Etre Etoilique (1937) 1 copy
Ping Pong 1 copy
Al cumplir ochenta (2004) 1 copy

Associated Works

She (1886) — Foreword, some editions — 2,912 copies
The Subterraneans (1958) — Foreword, some editions — 2,051 copies
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Contributor — 593 copies
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Contributor — 297 copies
The Olympia Reader (1965) — Contributor — 279 copies
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Contributor — 275 copies
Really the Blues (1946) — Preface, some editions — 260 copies
Brassai : Paris By Night (1987) 135 copies
The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground (2013) — Contributor — 79 copies
The Marvelous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca (1972) — Introduction, some editions — 67 copies
The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self (1992) — Contributor — 52 copies
Unknown California (1985) — Contributor — 41 copies
My Friend Henry Miller (1956) — Preface, some editions — 40 copies
The World of Luis Buñuel: Essays in Criticism (1978) — Contributor — 25 copies
The World of Law, Volume II : The Law as Literature (1960) — Contributor — 21 copies
EVERGREEN REVIEW: VOL. 3, NO. 9: SUMMER 1959 (1959) — Contributor — 12 copies
Four Visions of America (1977) — Contributor — 9 copies
Stroker anthology, 1974-1994 (1994) — Contributor — 7 copies
Paras elokuvakirja (1995) — Contributor — 5 copies
Stories of Scarlet Women (1962) — Contributor — 5 copies
Tuskan pääkaupungit (2002) 4 copies
Tropic of Cancer [1970 film] (2010) — Original book — 4 copies
Quiet Days in Clichy [1970 film] — Original book — 3 copies
Kapitein Bilbo, de eeuwige rebel : relaas van een roekeloos leven (1963) — Foreword, some editions — 3 copies
The PL book of modern American short stories (1945) — Contributor — 1 copy

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This was a book of wonderful descriptions and philosophical musings but the amount of testosterone flowing throughout rather swamped the good points for me.
 
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snash | 130 other reviews | Mar 18, 2024 |
This book spent years on my TBR shelf, because I was afraid I wouldn't like it. Finally I decided to read it and - guess what - I hated it.

The novel takes place in Paris, there is this young artist, his group of friends and a lot of women. A lot of women and a lot of sex, which was just so boring! No real story, nothing moving or funny or dramatic - lots of complaining and lots of sex. I have absolutely no idea why so many people enjoy this book - I didn't and I'm very happy to remove this book from my bookshelf. I'm not going to read any other book by this author.… (more)
 
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Donderowicz | 130 other reviews | Mar 12, 2024 |
Miller was a writer that was very interesting to me as a young man. That make sense, because he’s one of those writers that is best encountered in late adolescence or early adulthood. He’s crass, immature, and sophomoric - yet strangely, his most famous books were all written when he was already well over 30 years old. This particular book finds him a little bit more down to earth than what I remember about his Paris books from the 20s, then again he was just about 50 years old when it was published.

I will say, Miller’s off the cuff, free-wheeling style was light years ahead of its time, so much so that you sometimes have to remind yourself that the events of this book took place at the outset of WWII and written by an author who was born in the 1800s. The character that Miller plays in his writing, the kind of acerbic, sneering self-styled “idiot” who clearly thinks he’s smarter than everyone around him, who boasts of his willful ignorance towards the canonical style/literature that your usual early 20th century writer would be immersed in, this type of guy seems like he is way more common in 2023 than it was back then. In that way, Miller frog hopped over even the Beats, who apparently loved him and were most 30 or 40 years his junior.

For better or worse, it’s always his “ecstatic” moments that stick out for me when I read Miller. He usually starts a scene in the most earthy of realms (he writes about shitting his pants in this book) and almost before you know it, he’s unaccountably rocketed off in the stratosphere, lost in the most abstract, incoherent ramblings about god knows what. It seems to me that his goal is to poke about until he finds someway to launch into this realm - but these parts of his books have always been the most awkward and forced in my opinion. He seems to have a brain jumbled with a hodgepodge of avant-garde critiques of modern man and the modern world that can hardly be said to coalesce, and they read like the confused ramblings of a schizo. One of the worst passages I’ve read in a book in a long time happens like this in Colossus of Marousi, when Miller, for some strange and inexplicable reason decides to launch off into a way too long paean to the popular jazz musicians of that time, written in a kind of literary black face. Definitely could have left that out.

Despite these memorable passages of “transcendance”, Miller is an extremely negative writer, quick to sharply criticize everyone and everything about him that rubs him the wrong way. Now it’s no rare thing that a famous writer is given to a bit of pessimism every now and then; in fact it’s more often the case than not. But something about the way Miller unleashes his disdain just feels catty and mean and worst of all, sort of inarticulate. I sense no real love for other people in him, which is no crime, but he seems to take a perverse pride in this enmity for his fellow man.

All that said, he’s a cool hang when he’s in a good and funny mood. The parts of this book that are pure travelogue are worth admission alone. Good travel writing recounts not only the physical peregrinations of the author but the mental as well. Miller is acutely aware of the fact that he is not only traversing the Greek landscape, he’s also wandering across the Greece he holds in his mind.
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