<p>2017 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. <em>Tropic of Capricorn </em>is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller first published in Paris in 1939. The novel was banned in the United States and not published until 1961.&nbsp; &nbsp;It is a prequel to Miller&#39;s 1934 work the <em>Tropic of Cancer.</em> &nbsp;The novel is set in 1920s New York where the narrator &#39;Henry V. Miller&#39; works in the personnel division of the &#39;Cosmodemonic&#39; telegraph company. Although the narrator&#39;s experiences closely parallel Miller&#39;s own time in New York working for the Western Union Telegraph Company and though he shares the author&#39;s name the novel is considered a work of fiction. &nbsp;Much of the story surrounds his New York years of struggle with his first wife Beatrice before meeting and eventually marrying June.</p>