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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. - Henry Miller Attribution: Henry Miller (1891–1980), U.S. author. “Reflections on Writing,” The Wisdom of the Heart (1947).

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Henry Miller

Titles by Henry Miller:

• The Rosy Crucifixion
• Tropic of Cancer
• Tropic of Capricorn

Encyclopedia:

• Miller, Henry (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Miller, Henry Valentine (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Henry Miller (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Henry Miller (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Henry Miller (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Henry Miller (Identities and Issues in Literature)
• Henry Miller (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Literary Criticism:

• Miller, Henry (Vol. 9) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Miller, Henry (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Miller, Henry (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Miller, Henry (Vol. 14) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Miller, Henry (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Tropic of Cancer Miller, Henry (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Daisy Miller, Henry James (Short Story Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Henry Miller is born
• Henry Miller publishes Tropic of Cancer
• Henry Miller publishes Black Spring
• Henry Miller publishes Tropic of Capricorn
• Henry Miller dies