Henry Miller

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1934
  • Latest Book:
    September 2012
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Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Tropic of Cancer

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    Henry Miller’s famously banned book is “a matter-of-fact celebration of chucking one’s dreary life and following your heart to Paris” (Richard Price).   Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpie...

  • Tropic of Capricorn

    Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborh...

  • Wisdom Of The Heart

    This selection of stories and essays shows again the wide range of mood, style and subject matter which Henry Miller's work commands. Expressing himself with exhilarating candor and freedom, writing 'from the heart' with a refreshing lack of reticenc...

  • Sunday After the War

    "I always carry over 40,000 gold francs about with me in my belt. They weight about 40 pounds, and I am beginning to get dysentery from the load." A collection of stories and excerpts from longer works....

  • Devil in Paradise

    “A perfect expression of Miller’s moral perspective as well as one of his outstanding demonstrations of narrative skill. It provides a wonderful cinematic view of two indomitable egotists in deadly conflict.” -- The Nation The devil in Henry M...

  • The Cosmological Eye

    This collection, first published by New Directions in 1939, contains a number of Henry Miller's most important shorter prose writings. They are taken from the Paris books Black Spring (1936) and Max and the White Phagocytes (1938) and were for the mo...

  • Remember to Remember

    A collection of essays, stories and reflections written by Henry Miller upon his return to the US from France.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...

  • Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

    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 magazines while ...

  • The Henry Miller Reader

    Book annotation not available for this title...Title: .The Henry Miller Reader..Author: .Miller, Henry/ Durrell, Lawrence..Publisher: .W W Norton & Co Inc..Publication Date: .1969/06/01..Number of Pages: .397..Binding Type: .PAPERBACK..Library of Con...



  • The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

    His stories and essays celebrate those rare individuals (famous and obscure) whose creative resilience and mere existence oppose the mechanization of minds and souls. In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United Stat...

  • Plexus

  • Smile at the Foot of the Ladder

    Henry Miller called The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder his “most singular story.”  First published in 1959, this touching fable tells of Auguste, a famous clown who could make people laugh but who sought to impart to his audiences a lasting...

  • Under the Roofs of Paris

  • Into the Heart of Life

    In celebration of the centennial of his birth, Into the Heart of Life: Henry Miller at One Hundred gathers a captivating selection of writings from ten of his books. The delights of his prose are many, not the least of which is Miller's com...

  • Crazy Cock

    In 1930 Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris, leaving behind -- at least temporarily -- his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel that had sprung from his anguish over her love affair with a mysterious woman named Jean Kronski. Begu...

  • Moloch

    Uncovered along with Crazy Cock in 1988 by Miller biographer Mary V. Dearborn, Moloch emerged from the misery of Miller's years at Western Union and from the squalor of his first marriage. Set in the rapidly changing New York City of the early twenti...

  • Nexus

    Nexus, the last book of Henry Miller's epic trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, is widely considered to be one of the landmarks of American fiction. In it, Miller vividly recalls his many years as a down-and-out writer in New York City, his friends, mistre...

  • Sexus

    Henry Miller's monumental venture in self-revelation was begun with his Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, which on their American publication were hailed as "miraculous," "superb," "ribald," "brilliant," and "shamelessly shocking." Sexus is t...

  • Black Spring

    Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Par...



  • The Intimate Henry Miller

  • Bunny And Claude

    Slud Gulch has problems. The mine is petering out. Violence rules. Bunny and Claude have their hands full keeping what passes for law and order in the community. Farmer John, Bark Fangmonster and the three Coyote brothers are on a rampage and the cas...

  • Quiet Days in Clichy

    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 in Paris. Whe...

  • Sextet

    The best of Miller’s chapbooks bound into a single roaring volume.

    Resembling a musical sextet where no two instruments are the same, but all instruments blend to form a single sound, Henry Miller’s Sextet combines six jive-talkin’, fres...

  • Daisy Miller

    Traveling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she ta...

  • Paris 1928

    Published for the first time in English, Paris 1928 (Nexus II) continues in true Henry Miller fashion the narrative begun in Nexus, the third volume of the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy. A rough draft that Miller ultimately abandoned, the story describ...

  • Moloch: or, This Gentile World

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    Uncovered along with Crazy Cock in 1988 by Miller biographer Mary V. Dearborn, Moloch emerged from the misery of Miller's years at Western Union and from the squalor of his first marriage. Set in the rapidly changing New York City of the early twenti...

  • Opus Pistorum

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Henry Miller has published 27 books.

Henry Miller does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Paris 1928, was published in September 2012.

The first book by Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, was published in January 1934.

No. Henry Miller does not write books in series.
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