The final novel of Miller's frank, autobiographical trilogy continues to use burlesque, fantasy and dream to portray the life of a struggling writer in pre-World War I New York.

The delights of his prose are many, not the least of which is Miller's comic irony, which asThe London Timesnoted, can be "as stringent and urgent as Swift's." Frederick Turner has organized the whole to highlight the autobiographical chronology of Miller's life, and along the way places the author squarely where he belongs in the great tradition of American radical individualism, as a child of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Miller, who joyously declared "I am interested like God only in the individual," would have been pleased. The keynotes here are self-liberation and the pleasures of...

The devil in Henry Miller s Big Sur paradise is Conrad Moricand: A friend of his Paris days, who, having been financed and brought over from Europe as an act of mercy by Mr. Miller, turns out as exacting, sponging, evil, cunning and ungrateful a guest as can be found in contemporary literature. Mr. Miller has always been a remarkable creator of character. Conrad Moricand is probably his masterpiece. . . .A Devil in Paradise is the work of a great novelist manque, a novelist who has no stricter sense of form than the divine creator. . . .Fresh and intoxicating, funny and moving. . . The Times...

Aller Retour New Yorkis truly vintage Henry Miller, written during his most creative period, betweenTropic of Cancer(1934) andTropic of Capricorn(1939). Miller always said that his best writing was in his letters, and this unbuttoned missive to his friend Alfred Perles is not only his longest (nearly 80 pages ) but his best an exuberant, rambling, episodic, humorous account of his visit to New York in 1935 and return to Europe aboard a Dutch ship. Despite its high repute among Miller devotees, Aller Retour New Yorkhas never been easy to find. It was first brought out in Paris in 1935 in a...

A collection of stories and excerpts from longer works.