Tropic of Cancer FROM THE PUBLISHER
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedomand frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s.
FROM THE CRITICS
William H. Gass
"There is an eager vitality and exhuberance to the writing which is exhilerating; a rush of spirit into the world as though all the sparkling wines had been uncorked at once; we watchfully har th elanguage skip, whoop and wheel across Miller's pages."
--The New York Times Book Review
Saturday Review
"One of the most remarkable, most truly original authors of this or any age."
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Here is a book which, if such a thing were possible, might restore our appetite for the fundamental realities.
--Anais Nin — Anais Nin
"...one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century." — Norman Mailer
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