A cult modern classic Tropic of Capricorn is as daring frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel Tropic of Cancer new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey Emin A story of sexual and spiritual awakening Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers when it was published in 1939 A mixture of fiction and autobiography it is the story of Henry V 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 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 Literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done Lawrence Durrell The only imaginative prosewriter of the slightest value who has appeared among the Englishspeaking races for some years past George Orwell The greatest American writer Bob Dylan
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Fleur Adcock Collected Poems (Expanded Edition) Annie Lord A cult modern classic TropicThis expanded edition of Fleur Adcock s Collected Poems, first published in hardback in 2019, includes her latest collection The Mermaid's Purse, and twenty new poems. It is published simultaneously with Bloodaxe Books (UK) on the occasion of Fleur Adcock s 90th birthday on 10 February 2024. Adcock writes about men and women, childhood, identity, roots and rootlessness, memory and loss, animals and dreams, as well as our interactions with nature and