Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: subterraneans
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 1994-01-27
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802131867
ISBN-13: 9780802131867

Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac’s early classic, On The Road. Centering on the tempestous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox--two denizens of the 1950s San Francsico underground--The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and dark rooms,of artists, of visionaries,

Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: dharma
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0140287078
ISBN-13: 9780140287073

A previously unpublished volume by Jack Kerouac offers a collage of poems, haiku, journal entries, letters, meditations, ideas on writing, notes on Buddhism, prayers, blues, sketches, and more. 30,000 first printing."

Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: century, books, penguin, road
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140283293
ISBN-13: 9780140283297

On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac’s works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac’s writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac’s real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac’s alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought a

Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: anniversary, 50th, road
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-08-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0670063266
ISBN-13: 9780670063260

A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac’s classic novel that defined a generation Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "beat" and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that "set them free." Based on Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the

Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: City Lights Publisher
Keywords: pocket, poets, series, lights, city, golden, eternity, scripture
Number of Pages: 62
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0872862917
ISBN-13: 9780872862913

These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet’s beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.

Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: bums, dharma
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1976-05-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140042520
ISBN-13: 9780140042528

One of the best and most popular of Kerouac’s autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he’d become interested in Buddhism’s spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book’s main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan.From the author of "On The Road" comes this story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or trut

Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, road
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 2002-12-31
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0142437255
ISBN-13: 9780142437254

Jack Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "Beat" and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago. Introduction by Ann Charters