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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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Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, François Rabelais, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walt Wh ...more


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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Average rating: 3.76 · 169,289 ratings · 11,538 reviews · 980 distinct works • Similar authors
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
3.65 avg rating — 77,533 ratings — published 1934 — 17 editions
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Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic...
3.81 avg rating — 21,226 ratings — published 1939 — 95 editions
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Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion...
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,186 ratings — published 1949 — 14 editions
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Quiet Days in Clichy
3.61 avg rating — 6,068 ratings — published 1956 — 134 editions
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Black Spring
3.81 avg rating — 5,609 ratings — published 1936 — 109 editions
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The Colossus of Maroussi
3.96 avg rating — 5,244 ratings — published 1941 — 8 editions
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Plexus (The Rosy Crucifixio...
4.11 avg rating — 4,481 ratings — published 1952 — 118 editions
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Nexus (The Rosy Crucifixion...
4.11 avg rating — 4,228 ratings — published 1959 — 113 editions
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Big Sur and the Oranges of ...
4.02 avg rating — 3,401 ratings — published 1957 — 2 editions
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The Air-Conditioned Nightma...
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Series by Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer Black Spring Tropic of Capricorn
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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
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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
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“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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Polls

February 2016 New School Group Read

 
  25 votes, 18.0%

1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages
 
  20 votes, 14.4%

1979, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, 396 pages
 
  15 votes, 10.8%

 
  13 votes, 9.4%

1954, Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, 113 pages
 
  13 votes, 9.4%

 
  10 votes, 7.2%

1934, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, 318 pages
 
  10 votes, 7.2%

 
  8 votes, 5.8%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  8 votes, 5.8%

 
  4 votes, 2.9%

1947, If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, 398 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.9%

1936, South Riding by Winifred Holtby, 492 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1962, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 640 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1985, Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, 274 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

139 total votes
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