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Tropic of Cancer is an autobiographical novel by Henry Miller that is best known as "notorious for its candid sexuality", with the resulting social controversy considered responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature."
Tropic of Cancer: Henry Miller: Sexual content 1934 — — — Twilight (series) Stephenie Meyer: Religious viewpoint, violence, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group 2005–2008 — — — Two Boys Kissing: David Levithan: LGBT content, public displays of affection 2013 18 — — Ulysses: James Joyce: References to masturbation 1922
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism.
Tropic of Cancer (1934) Henry Miller: 1934 1964 Novel (fictionalized memoir) Banned in the US in the 1930s until the early 1960s, seized by US Customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest of Miller's work was also banned by the US. [285] Also banned in South Africa until the late 1980s. [286] The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John ...
The Tropic of Cancer, also known as the Northern Tropic, is the Earth's northernmost circle of latitude where the Sun can be seen directly overhead. This occurs on the June solstice , when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun to its maximum extent. [ 1 ]
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Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris. [1] Set in France (primarily Paris) during the 1930s, Miller tells of his life as a struggling writer. There are many passages explicitly describing the narrator's sexual encounters, but the book does not solely focus on this subject.
Jerry learns he has a library fine from 1971, for the then-controversial book Tropic of Cancer, and that the "case" has been turned over to the library investigations officer, Lt. Bookman. George arrives at the library, where he suspects that a homeless man on the steps outside is Mr. Heyman, a physical education teacher at his high school whom ...