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Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Born 26 Dec 1891 · Died 7 Jun 1980

From Yorkville, New York, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction and nonfiction

Wikipedia

Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional.

Quotes

  • “I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
    Tropic of Cancer
  • “Away with lamentation! Away with elegies and dirges! Away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! Let the dead eat the dead. Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance!”
    Tropic of Cancer
  • “In the broad Pacific of sex she lay, a gleaming silver reef surrounded with human anemones, human starfish, human madrepores.”
    Tropic of Capricorn, p. 166
  • “Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
    Tropic of Capricorn, p. 170
  • “I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must write and write and write.”
    Henry Miller on Writing, p. 19

Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Books by Henry Miller in order

Books by Henry Miller in the order they were published, from Tropic of Cancer (1934) to Paris 1928 (2012).

  1. 1Tropic of CancerTropic of Cancer1934
  2. 2Black SpringBlack Spring1938
  3. 3Henry Miller's Hamlet LettersHenry Miller's Hamlet Letters1939
  4. 4Tropic of CapricornTropic of Capricorn1939
  5. 5The World of SexThe World of Sex1940
  6. 6The Colossus of MaroussiThe Colossus of Maroussi1941
  7. 7The Air-conditioned NightmareThe Air-conditioned Nightmare1945
  8. 8The Smile at the Foot of the LadderThe Smile at the Foot of the Ladder1948
  9. 9SexusSexus1949
  10. 10The Books in My LifeThe Books in My Life1950
  11. 11PlexusPlexus1953
  12. 12Quiet Days in ClichyQuiet Days in Clichy1956
  13. 13The Time of the AssassinsThe Time of the Assassins1956
  14. 14Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus BoschBig Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch1957
  15. 15The Henry Miller ReaderThe Henry Miller Reader1959
  16. 16To Paint Is to Love AgainTo Paint Is to Love Again1960
  17. 17Henry MillerHenry Miller1962
  18. 18NexusNexus1966
  19. 19InsomniaInsomnia1970
  20. 20On Turning EightyOn Turning Eighty1972
  21. 21Paris 1928Paris 19282012
  22. 22Crazy CockCrazy Cock
  23. 23Opus PistorumOpus Pistorum
  24. 24Under the Roofs of ParisUnder the Roofs of Paris

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