Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States ; an edition was printed by the Obelisk Press in Paris and copies were smuggled into the United States.

Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States.

Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States ; Obelisk published five more books by Miller, as well as Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero ( 1930 ), Anaïs Nin's Winter of Artifice ( 1939 ), Cyril Connolly's first book and only novel, The Rock Pool ( 1936 ), James Joyce's Haveth Childers Everywhere and Pomes Penyeach ( 1932 ), Frank Harris's My Life and Loves ( 1934 ) and Lawrence Durrell's The Black Book ( 1938 ), Squadron 95 by war hero Harold Buckley, James Hanley's Boy ( 1935 ) and Limericks by Norman Douglas.

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