Tropic of Cancer

No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate American in Paris was deemed obscene and banned from publication in this country for years. When you read this, you see immediately how much modern writers owe Miller.

• Black Spring
• Naked Lunch
• Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I
• Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"
• Big Sur
• On the Road
• Plexus: The Rosy Crucifixion II
• Nexus: The Rosy Crucifixion, Book 3
• Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
• Naked Angels: The Lives & Literature of the Beat Generation