In the work that gave the title to this, Henry Miller narrates about his literary preferences, talks about his favorite books and even gives a very voluminous list of them. Miller's tastes may seem paradoxical: the elitist Hamsun and Proust here peacefully get along with the popular Walter Scott and Ryder Haggard - but the more interesting the writer's argument Conclude a volume of Arthur Rimbaud's biography "Time of the Killers" and several small essays devoted to Miller's close friends, such as Hans Reichel or Anais Nin. Most of Miller's texts included in the book have been translated into Russian for the first time.