On the Road: The Original Scroll

Author: Jack Kerouac

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SKU: 9780141189215

On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance.

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Jack Kerouac's On the Road (A Penguin Books Amplified Edition)

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On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition

By Jack Kerouac

This bible of the Beat Generation is a modern classic of the unforgettable exuberance, poignancy, and passion of the 1950s. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of "On the Road" comes Keroacs original scroll version, published in a standard book format.

This bible of the Beat Generation is a modern classic of the unforgettable exuberance, poignancy, and passion of the 1950s. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of "On the Road" comes Keroacs...

Published: 14/11/2007

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780670063260

RRP: $35.00

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On the Road

By Jack Kerouac

'Behind us lay the whole of America and everything Dean and I had previously known about life, and life on the road. We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic.'

Published: 11/01/2012

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780141198200

RRP: $29.95

On The Road: Popular Penguins

By Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's On the Road rocked the establishment with its seminal, stream-of-consciousness portrayal of 1950s underground America. Amidst a whirlwind of sex, drugs and jazz, writer Sal Paradise and his hero 'the holy con-man with the shining mind', Dean Moriarty traverse the country in search of life and experience. Wild and exuberant, this life-changing novel defined the Beat generation and inspired...

Published: 01/09/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141037486

RRP: $9.95

On the Road Film Tie In

By Jack Kerouac

Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.

A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel...

Published: 20/08/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140265002

RRP: $19.99

The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel

By Jack Kerouac

Before he became famous with On the Road, Jack Kerouac was a sailor. This, his first novel, was inspired by his love affair with the sea.

Published: 10/11/2011

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780141193335

RRP: $39.95

On the Road

By Jack Kerouac

'What's your road, man? — holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.'

Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean...

Published: 13/05/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241951538

RRP: $19.95

On the Road

By Jack Kerouac

On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognised as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and...

Published: 22/06/2000

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141182674

RRP: $22.95

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

By Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs

With an Afterword by
James Grauerholz

'The novel that kicked it all off'
Independent

This is a hardboiled crime novel, and a true story. In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice – neither had told the police.

With an Afterword by
James Grauerholz

'The novel that kicked it all off'
Independent

This is a hardboiled crime novel, and a true story. In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown...

Published: 26/10/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141189673

RRP: $24.95