About this title: Down and out in Paris, the narrator of TROPIC OF CANCER hangs out in the Montparnasse neighborhood with fellow expatriates and artists. Told via turbulent, elaborate prose, the story is infused with graphic sexuality and sheer gusto. Originally published in 1934, TROPIC OF CANCER was banned from the U.S. until 1961; when it was finally printed ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1961
Description: Acceptable. Spine Damage-Spotty Page Edges-Wear To All Edges-Yellowing Pages-*** Expect to receive a well read copy-The condition of the book will be readable, perhaps with heavy creasing and some damage. You wouldn't want to give it as a present-Dispatched in padded packaging. ** UK SELLER-Get it in days not weeks ** read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Flamingo
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780006545835ISBN:0006545831
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: book club associates, guild publi
Date Published: 1982
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Calder, London
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean, square copy in grey boards with gilt lettering to spine. 318 pages. Next post dispatch. read more
Description: Very good. Guild publishing, Hardback, 1988. Only very light shelf wear to top of DJ, (Complete). Otherwise as new, in immaculate condition. Pages and edges clean and white, no dedication, book, binding and cover all excellent. Very nice looking copy. We will refund full book value, no questions asked if returned within thirty days of delivery. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: John Calder, London
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good/No Jacket. Used This book is showing some signs of its age but is good overall. Some fading and shelfwear to cover, slight cocking, but contents clean, tight and bright. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: GROVE PRESS
Date Published: 1982
Description: Published by GROVE PRESS in 1982, hardback with D/J, medium size, internally good, boards good, green cloth. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: GRAFTON BOOKS
Date Published: 1965
ISBN-13:9780586018125ISBN:0586018123
Description: Paperback book in good condition at sensible price. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: CALDER
Date Published: 1963
Description: Published by CALDER in 1963. Hardback. Condition: Acceptable. Reading copy ONLY #1165574 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: JOHN CALDER.
Date Published: 1963
Description: Published by John Calder. in 1963. Hardback without Dust jacket. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: GUILD PUBLISHING
Date Published: 1988
Description: Published by Guild Publishing in 1988. Dust jacket. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Fifth Reprint. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Panther Books, London
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Tightly bound with contents clean and bright, good overall condition, we post daily from our UK warehouse, if you have any questions or require images then please don't hesitate to contact us for an immediate courteous response. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Flamingo, London
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780006545835ISBN:0006545831
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Reprint in paperback format in the Flamingo Modern Classics series, 8vo, 318pp, card covers, VG+/Fine Copy. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: FLAMINGO
Date Published: 1993
Description: Published by Flamingo in 1993. Paperback. Number of pages: 318. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: GROVE PRESS
Date Published: 1961
Description: Published by GROVE PRESS in 1961. Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Reading copy ONLY Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
"After reading Tropic of Cancer I have fallen in love with Henry Miller, and now I read everything that I can get my hands on by him. This book was truly art. If Salvador Dali was a writer, this is what he would have created. It was wonderfully surreal."
"A marvelous pretention of a travel memoir from an American in Paris. More a song than a book: a love ballad to a city. In parts it reads like the surreal confessions of a sex addict. In other parts it is nothing less than a mock-serious philosophical treatis.
Tropic of Cancer is almost always as fun to read as it must have been to write. I say almost because at the outset, I kept wondering how much of his self-preening I'd let Miller get away with before I lost all interest; he can at times be highly idealistic and self-indulgent (I mean really really self-indulgent), but then I began to indulge myself in all his blarney... skimming in short to make the passages a jumble of images and impressions. Nevertheless several passages of this book I will continually return to inorder to mark the essential expressions of existential transformation, which are really the hallmark of Miller's style."
"Such a brassy show of vim shallowly belies this book's true impotence. Here we see the familiar anachronism of anti-modern emotional anarchism, with unfortunately flaccid and equally familiar results. As Romanticism defined the reactionary materialism of the Naturalists, so the Puritan ethic informs the adolescent taboo-fetish of this goat's prose. Alas, false lubricity grates as offensively as false diffidence; not to imply, however, that the narrator does not legitimately love vaginas. Indeed, had he rid himself entirely of the dull ideas he entertains for the abysmal final third of this novel, the resulting paean to hedon pleasure may have achieved true art merit. However, it's all too drab to be vivid and too rank to be hieratic. The author, like his narrator, seems to mistake a Titan for a Turk; a Titan, after all, cons the gods, not the banal bohemians of a derelict race.
(incidentally: does it invariably indicate a feeble imagination when one isolates Stavrogin as Dostoevsky's sublime ego-creation?)"
"So, I was glancing through some of the reviews here and noticed that someone has totally disparaged this book because its "hero" is immoral. It always bewilders me when people judge a book according to the moral judgment that they pass on its characters. Like when I was looking at the reviews of John Updike's Run, Rabbit and saw a woman saying that she hated the book because Angstrom left his wife twice in the book. I was like, don't take it personally, lady; he's not your husband. A lot of people do it. They ignore the book and get too tangled up in how likeable the characters are. I really don't get this. Someone should explain it to me. Is Lolita a bad book because it's about a pedophile? Should writers feel like their characters will be competing in a popularity contest in the minds of the readers? Should we then only read books about angels floating happily in Heaven, doing good things? Aren't evil and immorality - whatever they mean - facts of life that should be dissected and explained by literature?
I didn't bother with the morality of the hero. I don't care if he slept with a whore and then stole her money and ran away. Who cares? Look at all that delicious writing instead, all the ranting and raving of a tormented and brilliant mind, and the brutal honesty of it.
I don't know why publishers still insist on marketing this book for its "explicit language and breaking of sexual taboos in literature." That's just so passé in an age when even pornography makes us yawn. The beauty of this book lies somewhere else."
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