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Long hailed as a truly liberating book, daring and uncompromising, Tropic of Cancer is a cornerstone of modern literature that asks us to reconsider everything we know about art, freedom, and morality. When it was first published in the US in 1961, it led to more than 60 obscenity trials until a historic ruling by the Supreme Court defined it as a work of literature. I don’t give a fuck any more what’s behind me, or what’s ahead of me. Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer I’ve lived out my melancholy youth. led to obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography in the early 1960s. Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer Everything is endureddisgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennuiin the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. It was first published in 1934 in Paris, France, but this edition was banned in the United States. Banned in the US and the UK for more than thirty years because it was considered pornographic, Tropic of Cancer continued to be distributed in France and smuggled into other countries. Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller, noted for its candid descriptions of sexuality. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it features a starving American writer who lives a bohemian life among prostitutes, pimps, and artists. As the head of Grove Press, which published Henry Millers Tropic of Cancer, the book at the heart of these lawsuits, I will wind up testifying in only two. Millers groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century - new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey Emin