Tropic of Capricorn
First edition cover, Paris, 1938
Author	Henry Miller
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Obelisk Press
Publication date	1938
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	367 pp
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. The novel was subsequently banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene.^[1] It is a sequel to Miller's 1934 work, the Tropic of Cancer.

The novel is set in 1920s New York, where the narrator 'Henry V. Miller' works in the personnel division of the 'Cosmodemonic' telegraph company. Although the narrator's experiences closely parallel Miller's own time in New York working for the Western Union Telegraph Company, and he shares the author's name, the novel is considered a work of fiction.

[edit] References

1. ^ Conversations with Henry Miller. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 1994. p. 226. ISBN 0878055207.