Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller audiobook

Tropic of Cancer

By Henry Miller
Read by Campbell Scott

Caedmon, HarperCollins 9785898155049
10.07 Hours Unabridged
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Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s with unapologetic gusto, and is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century." The audiobook is narrated by acclaimed actor Campbell Scott. Now hailed as an American classic, Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its initial publication in Paris in 1943; only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction. 

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Summary

Summary

One of Time Magazine's Best 100 English-Language Novels from 1923–2005

One of Modern Library‘s 100 Best English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century

A New York Times bestseller

A 2008 Listen Up Award Editor's Choice

Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s with unapologetic gusto, and is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century." The audiobook is narrated by acclaimed actor Campbell Scott.

Now hailed as an American classic, Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its initial publication in Paris in 1943; only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction. 

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“I earnestly counsel anyone who has not done so to read… Tropic of Cancer.”  George Orwell
“A momentous event in the history of modern writing.” Samuel Beckett 
“I read Tropic of Cancer a month ago. It seems to me to be a really excellent piece of work.”  H.L. Mencken 
“Mr. Miller’s first and best novel.”  Anatole Broyard

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Author

Author Bio: Henry Miller

Author Bio: Henry Miller

Henry Miller (1891–1980) was born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn. He lived in Europe, particularly Paris, Berlin, the south of France, and Greece; in New York; and in Beverly Glen, Big Sur, and Pacific Palisades, California, where he died. He is also the author, among many other works, of Tropic of Capricorn, the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, Plexus, Nexus), and The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. Many of his novels, including Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, were banned in the United States until almost thirty years after their initial publication in France. The United States’ publication of Tropic of Cancer in 1961 sparked uproar that led to a number of obscenity trials. One of the early indications of how important Miller’s career would prove to be came in 1940, when George Orwell wrote an essay entitled Inside the Whale in which he praised Miller.

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Available Formats : Digital Download, CD, MP3 CD
Runtime: 10.07
Audience: Adult
Language: English