The Books in My Life - Henry Miller
The Books in My Life - Henry Miller Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking--but not Henry Miller. Some of Miller's favorite writers are the giants…
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The Books in My Life - Henry Miller
Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking--but not Henry Miller. Some of Miller's favorite writers are the giants whom most of us revere--authors such as Dostoeyvsky, Boccaccio, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Lao-Tse. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have brought to a keenly curious and questioning mind.
But many are lesser-known figures: Krishnamurti, the prophet-sage; the French contemporaries Blaise Cendrars and Jean Giono; Richard Jeffries, who wrote The Story of My Heart; the Welshman John Cowper Powys; and scores of others. To them he brings fresh and penetrating insights. The Books in My Life contains some fine autobiographical chapters, too.
Miller describes his boyhood in Brooklyn, when he devoured the historical stories of G. A. Henty and the