
This article about an erotic novel is a stub. is the US publisher of Tropic of Capricorn. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. It is a prequel to Miller's 1934 work, the Tropic of Cancer. The novel was banned in the United States and not published until 1961. Much of the story surrounds his New York years of struggle with wife June Miller, and the process of finding his voice as a writer. A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Millers first novel, Tropic of Cancer new to Penguin Modern. Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1939. The book is a story of spiritual awakening. Although the narrator's experiences closely parallel Miller's own time in New York working for the Western Union Telegraph Company, and though he shares the author's name, the novel is considered a work of fiction. Miller' works in the personnel division of the 'Cosmodemonic' telegraph company. The novel is set in 1920s New York, where the narrator 'Henry V. Both Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer are published in the United States by Grove Press an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. It is a sequel to Miller's 1934 work, the Tropic of Cancer. The novel was subsequently banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene. Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938.
