A cult modern classic,Tropic of Capricornis as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel,Tropic of CancerA story of sexual and spiritual awakening,Tropic of Capricornshocked 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 Capricornpaints 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 prose-writer of the slightest value...