They are taken from the Paris booksHenry Miller is the nearest thing to C?line America has produced.... He aims not at the ears, brains or consciences, but at the viscera and solar plexus.His is one of the most beautiful prose styles today.Miller is a natural bom writer, and he sees things as nobody else sees them.This collection, first published by New Directions in 1939, contains a number of Henry Miller's most important shorter prose writings.