Exposing the underbelly of Paris and its world of sex, prostitutes and destitution, this 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 contemporary accusations of obscenity, demonstrating that stylistically and socially Henry Miller was ahead of his time.

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'American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done.' – Lawrence Durrell

'I like Henry Miller. I think he's the greatest American writer' – Bob Dylan

'There is nothing like Henry Miller when he gets rolling... One has to take the English language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity... a wildwater of prose, a cataract, a volcano, a torrent, an earthquake... a writer finally like a great athlete, a phenomenon of an avatar of literary energy.' –
Norman Mailer

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Banned for much of the author’s lifetime, and notorious afterwards, the works of Henry Miller (1891–1980) have left an indelible mark on subsequent American authors such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Add to Cart: