A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence Durrell. In 1958, when Henry Miller was elected to membership in the American Institute of Arts and Letters, the citation described him as: "The veteran author of many books whose originality and richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his subject matter. His boldness of approach and intense curiosity concerning man and nature are unequalled in the prose literature of our times." It is most fitting that this anthology of "the best" of Henry Miller should have been assembled by one of the first among Miller’s contemporaries to recognize his genius, the eminent British writer Lawrence Durrell. Drawing material from a dozen different books Durrell has traced the main line and principal themes of the "single, endless autobiography" which is Henry Miller’s life work. "I suspect," writes Durrell in his Introduction, "that Miller’s final place will be among those towering anomalies of authorship like Whitman or Blake who have left us, not simply works of art, but a corpus of ideas which motivate and influence a whole cultural pattern." Earlier, H. L. Mencken had said, "his is one of the most beautiful prose styles today," and the late Sir Herbert Read had written that "what makes Miller distinctive among modern writers is his ability to combine, without confusion, the aesthetic and prophetic functions." Included are stories, "portraits" of persons and places, philosophical essays, and aphorisms. For each selection Miller himself prepared a brief commentary which fits the piece into its place in his life story. This framework is supplemented by a chronology from Miller’s birth in 1891 up to the spring of 1959, a bibliography, and, as an appendix, an open letter to the Supreme Court of Norway written in protest of the ban on Sexus, a part of which appears in this volume.

Henry Miller Reader

Literature & Fiction

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In this loving portrait by his son Borys, the author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim is observed at work and away from his desk, where he is described as a companionable father who was willing to take risky and decisive action at the outbreak of World War I in order to protect his family. However, no attempt is made to conceal the man?s weaknesses, and the crucial role his stoical wife played in keeping the family together. Providing fascinating sketches of Conrad?s most well-known literary acquaintances, including Henry James, John Galsworthy, and Ford Madox Ford, these memoirs are an absorbing read for any aficionado or student of Conrad?s great novels.

My Father Joseph Conrad

Biographies & Memoirs

Conrad, Borys

Arts & Literature

Plays

Pignet, Robert

Dramas & Plays

Tropisms: With Age of Suspicion

SARRAUTE, NATHALIE

Contemporary

Aidan Higgins's great novel has long been unavailable, and is here reissued in a new and revised edition. "Balcony of Europe" tells the story of a young Jewish wife from San Francisco and a middle-aged Irish painter who meet in a village on the coast of Spain, beginning an affair during the coldest European winter in two hundred years--all the while surrounded by a cast of characters as bizarre and hilarious as they are, finally, touching. Lyrical and humorous, heartbreaking and hopeful, "Balcony of Europe "is Aidan Higgins's crowning achievement.

Balcony of Europe

Higgins, Aidan

British & Irish

Bark Tree

QUENEAU, RAYMOND

Literary

Black Spider

Jérémias, Gotthelf

GOTTHELF, Jeremias

Mythology & Folk Tales

<p>Rear cover notes: "This is the autobiography of Wyndham Lewis during his most creative years, the period before and during the Great War. It reappears after many years out of print with new material that has been made available by the author's widow. Wyndham Lewis was in every way an amazing man: a central figure in the modern movement in art and literature, he was one of the most renowned painters of the century, a founder of Vorticism, one of the most original modern writers, and a polemicist of genius, having devoted much of his life to establishing the work of others. He writes of his early struggles, his social contacts with other figures of his day and of the new movements that he did so much to establish. But the war memoirs, essays and stories that make up a large part of this book are no less interesting. Above all Wyndham Lewis was a brilliant individualist, lashing out against complacency and traditionalism, not afraid to criticise his closest friends when he disagreed with them, and he undoubtedly had many enemies. Now his novels are being read again after a period of neglect and this important volume of biographical, critical and fictional writing helps to show the man behind the Tate Gallery paintings, the polemical review 'Blast' and 'The Human Age', as a colourful, courageous and cocky individualist, to whom many of the best known creative imaginations in modern Britain owe a considerable debt."</p>

Blasting and Bombardiering (Calderbook, CB 225)

LEWIS, Wyndham

Bloody Countess

Penrose, Valentine

Historical

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