This collection of stories and essays takes its title from a long prose reverie in which Henry Miller, after his return to the United States, thinks back to the happy years of middle life which he spent in France. The qualities that make...

"Verrückte Lust" ist die deutsche Übersetzung des Buches "Crazy Cock" von Henry Miller. Das Werk gehört zu den frühen Schriften Millers und wurde posthum veröffentlicht. Es erzählt die Geschichte eines komplexen Liebesdreiecks in New...

Big Sur und die Orangen des Hieronymus Bosch

'Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy'Looking back to Henry Miller's bohemian life in 1930s Paris, when he was an obscure, penniless writer, Quiet Days in...

"Sexus" ist der erste Band der autobiografischen Romantrilogie "Die Rosenkreuzer" von Henry Miller. In diesem Werk beschreibt Miller seine Erlebnisse und inneren Konflikte im New York der 1920er Jahre. Der Protagonist, eine fiktive...

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century -- new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey...

In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of...

This tender and nostalgic work dates from the same period as Tropic of Cancer (1934). It is a celebration of love, art, and the Bohemian life at a time when the world was simpler and slower, and Miller an obscure, penniless young writer...

One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign...

The scandalous autobiographical trilogy, which was banned for 30 years in the US and the UK, published for the first time in "Penguin Modern Classics", with innovative covers. von Miller, Henry

Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read...