Tropic of capricorn henry miller pdf
Tropic of Capricorn.
Tropic of Capricorn..
Tropic of Capricorn (novel)
1934 novel by Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published by Obelisk Press in Paris in 1939.
A prequel of sorts to Miller's first published novel, 1934's Tropic of Cancer, it was banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene.
History
Writing
During a three-week vacation from Western Union in 1922, Miller wrote his first novel, Clipped Wings, a study of 12 Western Union messengers.
Tropic of Capricorn (Excerpts) by Henry Miller, Page 2.It has never been published; only fragments remain, although parts of it were recycled in later works, including in the brief portraits of Western Union messengers in Tropic of Capricorn.[1][2]
In the spring of 1927, Miller was living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights with his second wife June Miller and her lover, Jean Kronski.
He had recently obtained a new job working for the Parks Department. One day