The Henry Miller Reader
Title | The Henry Miller Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811201117 |
A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence Durrell.
The Books in My Life
Title | The Books in My Life PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780811201087 |
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
Henry Miller on Writing
Title | Henry Miller on Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780811201124 |
Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and how he learned to draw on his own experience.
The Colossus of Maroussi
Title | The Colossus of Maroussi PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2010-05-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811218570 |
Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young woman’s seductive description of Greece. Miller headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside: a flock of sheep nearly tramples the two as they lie naked on a beach; the Greek poet Katsmbalis, the “colossus” of Miller’s book, stirs every rooster within earshot of the Acropolis with his own loud crowing; cold hard-boiled eggs are warmed in a village’s single stove, and they stay in hotels that “have seen better days, but which have an aroma of the past.”
The Wisdom of the Heart
Title | The Wisdom of the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-12-20 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0811222365 |
An essential collection of writings, bursting with Henry Miller’s exhilarating candor and wisdom In this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters. Writing “from the heart,” always with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the reader directly in his thoughts and feelings. “His real aim,” Karl Shapiro has written, “is to find the living core of our world whenever it survives and in whatever manifestation, in art, in literature, in human behavior itself. It is then that he sings, praises, and shouts at the top of his lungs with the uncontainable hilarity he is famous for.” Here are some of Henry Miller’s best-known writings: an essay on the photographer Brassai; “Reflections on Writing,” in which Miller examines his own position as a writer; “Seraphita” and “Balzac and His Double,” on the works of other writers; and “The Alcoholic Veteran,” “Creative Death,” “The Enormous Womb,” and “The Philosopher Who Philosophizes.”
Tropic of Cancer
Title | Tropic of Cancer PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2013-02-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781482568967 |
A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris.
Sunday After the War
Title | Sunday After the War PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 159 |
Release | 1944-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 081122404X |
"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.