Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: road
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1976-12-28
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140042598
ISBN-13: 9780140042597

First published in 1957, this novel epitomized to the world the Beat philosophy. It chronicles a spontaneous and wandering life style founded both on jazz and drug-induced visions.

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

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

Authors:Jack Kerouac, Howard Cunnell,
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: scroll, original, road
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-08-16
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 067006355X
ISBN-13: 9780670063550

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed itIN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic—rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily edited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creative history, represen

Author: Professor Hilary Holladay PhDProfessor Robert Hol
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: road, kerouac, jack, critical, man, essays
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-11-27
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0809328836
ISBN-13: 9780809328833

This title revisits a timeless American novel. The ten essays in this groundbreaking compilation cover a broad range of topics, employing a variety of approaches, including theoretical interpretations and textual and comparative analysis, to investigate such issues as race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as the novel’s historical and literary contexts. "What’s Your Road, Man? Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road" illustrates the richness of the critical work currently being undertaken on this vital American narrative.Combining essays from renowned Kerouac exp

Authors:Jack Kerouac, Douglas G. Brinkley,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: kerouac, jack, journals, world, windblown
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-04-04
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0143036068
ISBN-13: 9780143036067

Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the

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