Now hailed as an American vintage, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was prohibited as obscene within this nation for twenty-seven years following its first publication in Paris in 1943. Only a historic court ruling that transformed American censorship specifications, ushering in a fresh era of independence and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of the first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto, the bawdy journeys of a young expatriate article writer, his friends, as well as the character types they meet up with in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancers is now regarded, as Norman Mailer stated, ‘one from the ten or twenty great books of our century.’