Henry Miller is the most prominent representative of the experimental trend in American prose of the 20th century, a daring innovator, whose best works were banned for a long time in his homeland, a master of the confessional-autobiographical genre. The "Paris Trilogy" - "Tropic of Cancer", "Black Spring", "Tropic of Capricorn" - brought him scandalous fame; these novels took decades to achieve mass recognition, overcoming court injunctions and censorship slingshots. “It's a Wonderful World” became the master's first book officially published in the USA; It was from this collection that a wide reader discovered Miller's unique mixture of autobiographical prose and reflections on everything in the world - Joyce and Proust, D. H. Lawrence and Dostoevsky, Christianity and Buddhist philosophy, the French national character, modernism and surrealism...