Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tropic of Cancer | 1934 | Henry Miller | Buy |
| 2 | Тропик рака | 1934 | Henry Miller | N/A |
| 3 | Black Spring | 1936 | Henry Miller | Buy |
| 4 | Tropic of Capricorn | 1939 | Henry Miller | Buy |
Henry Miller’s Tropic novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). Tropic of Cancer describes Miller’s poverty-stricken life in Paris during the early 1930s, written in a freewheeling style that mixes autobiography with philosophy and explicit sexual content. Tropic of Capricorn is a companion piece about his earlier years in New York.
Black Spring, published between them, collects prose sketches and surrealist writing from the same period. All three were published in Paris by Obelisk Press and banned in the United States. The 1964 Supreme Court ruling on Tropic of Cancer became a landmark free speech case that effectively ended literary censorship in America.