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Aller Retour New York by Henry Miller
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"New York is an aquarium...where there are nothing but hell benders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks." In 1935, Henry Miller set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. Aller Retour New York, his exuberant, humorous missive to his friend Alfred Perl ...Show more
Nexus (#3) by Henry Miller
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Nexus is the third volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Millers major life work. The exhilarating final volume of Henry Millers semi-autobiographical trilogy, Nexus follows his last months in New York. Trapped in a bizarre menage-a-trois with his fiery wife Mona and her lover Sta ...Show more
Paris 1928: Nexus II by Henry Miller
Category: Art
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 Paris and Europe in 1928, a world on the edge of the great depression. "That night I didn't sleep a wink. It wasn't the bedbugs ...Show more
Plexus (#2) by Henry Miller
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work. Exploring one mans desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume of Henry Miller's scandalous semi-autobiographical trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion. It finds him in the midst of his stor ...Show more
Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller
Category: Fiction
Exposing the underbelly of Paris and its world of sex, prostitutes and destitution, the novel was, like most of Miller's novels, repressed in Britain and the USA due to its erotic content. Fortunately, this groundbreaking narrative, which captures the free-love spirit of a generation, has outlived its c ...Show more
Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy'. Looking back to Henry Miller's bohemian life in 1930s Paris, when he was an obscure, penniless writer, Quiet Days in Clichy is a love letter to a city. As he describes nocturnal wande ...Show more
Sexus by Henry Miller
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Millers major life work Henry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his 'rosy crucifixion'. His searing fictionalized autobiography of this time of liberation ...Show more
Sexus (Rosy Crucifixion #1) by MILLER HENRY
Category: Classics | Series: Rosy crucifixion
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 sexual exploits in New York. The other books are "Plexus" and "Nexus."
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
Category: Travel
A memoir of the Greek holiday the great American novelist Henry Miller took immediately before World War II.
The Colossus of Maroussi by MILLER HENRY
Category: Travel
This book about Greece, by the author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn is incandescent with his feeling for a great people and their past.
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light'. Enraptured by a young woman's account of the landscapes of Greece, Henry Miller set off to explore the Grecian countryside with his friend Lawrence Durrell in 1939. In T ...Show more
The Time of the Assassins by Henry V. Miller
Category: Non-Fiction
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.