Editing Henry Miller (section)

===Greece, 1939–1940===
In 1939 [[Lawrence Durrell]], British novelist who was living in [[Corfu]], Greece, invited Miller to Greece. Miller described the visit in ''[[The Colossus of Maroussi]]'' (1941), which he considered his best book.<ref name="gwickes" /> One of the first acknowledgments of Henry Miller as a major modern writer was by [[George Orwell]] in his 1940 essay "[[Inside the Whale]]", where he wrote:

{{blockquote|Here in my opinion is the only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. Even if that is objected to as an overstatement, it will probably be admitted that Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere [[Jonah]], a passive acceptor of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses.<ref>Orwell, George [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/inside-the-whale1.htm "Inside the Whale"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050802085103/http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/inside-the-whale1.htm |date=2005-08-02 }}, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1940.</ref>}}