![]() ![]() 'Literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done' Lawrence Durrell *Tropic of Capricorn* paints a dazzling picture of the life of the writer and of New York City between the wars: the skyscrapers and the sewers, the lust and the dejection, the smells and the sounds of a city that is perpetually in motion, threatening to swallow everyone and everything. ![]() Miller who works for the Cosmodemonic telegraph company in New York in the 1920s and tries to write the most important work of literature that was ever published. A mixture of fiction and autobiography, it is the story of Henry V. A cult modern classic, *Tropic of Capricorn* is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller's first novel, *Tropic of Cancer* – new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey Emin.Ī story of sexual and spiritual awakening, *Tropic of Capricorn* shocked readers when it was published in 1939. ![]()
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