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Jack Kerouac
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to get away to…
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A brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac's Buddhist thinking
From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always…
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Follows two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high…
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…
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The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and…
The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity…
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United…
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A celebrated return of Robert Frank's seminal photobook, The Americans, to Aperture's catalog one of the most important bodies of photographic work ever made.
With an introduction by Alan Ginsberg, Kerouac’s first and most important poem joins the Penguin Modern Classics.
Kerouac’s first and most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements…
A heart-breaking road-trip across America, based on Kerouac’s own memories of childhood
It’s 1948, and when ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson’s guardian dies, his older brother Slim appears. Together, the two…
Written in two installments during visits Kerouac made to Mexico in 1955 and 1956, this novel is a portrait of a young prostitute destroying herself in the squalid drug underworld…
A coming of age story, which draws on the author’s New England childhood.
From one of the most famous of the Beat writers, Kerouac's final novel of brotherhood and travel, now reissued in a standalone edition following his centenary celebration
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Big Sur, first published in 1962, was written by author and poet Jack Kerouac in the fall of 1961 over a ten-day period. This Penguin edition reprint recounts Kerouac's (here…
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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘See my hand up-tipped, learn the…
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Gae Polisner
Fifteen-year-old JL Markham's life used to be filled with carnival nights and hot summer days spent giggling with her forever best friend, Aubrey, about their families and boys. Together, they…
The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac brings together 19 leading Kerouac scholars, who offer fresh perspectives on his multifaceted body of work, ranging from detailed analyses of his most significant…
Jack Kerouac stands out as the voice of the Beat Generation. His 1957 novel On the Road, setting his real-life adventures against a backdrop of jazz and poetry, was formed…
A semi-autobiographical novel that follows the spiritual journey of two friends, Ray Smith and Japhy Ryder, as they seek enlightenment through nature, Zen Buddhism, and the bohemian lifestyle of the…
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Jack Kerouac’s Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics edition
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From a recently surfaced manuscript, a treasury of mid-‘50s road poems, intoxication poems, dharma verse, Canuck patois elegy, haikus, and blues.
Tom Clark
This illustrated biography focuses on one of the major names in post-war popular culture. Kerouac epitomized the Beat Generation of 50s America, and his most famous novel On the Road…
Jenn McKee
A prophet for the beat generation, Kerouac defined Sixties counter-culture and the quest for self with his groundbreaking novel ‘On the Road’. This biography lends insight to the writer’s life…
Jack Kerouac is one of the most widely read and profoundly influential writers in the American canon. This one-volume omnibus, planned by the author himself before his death and completed…
Robert O'Brian
Jack Kerouac's Confession chronicles the journey of a burnt-out poet-journalist whose descent into madness and desperation is interrupted when he re-discovers a long-forgotten connection with the young Jack Kerouac. The…
Michael J. Dittman
From relative obscurity, even at the time of his death in 1969, Jack Kerouac has risen to iconic status with invigorated interest among both scholars and general readers. This biography…
Features interviews ranging from 1957 to 1969, covering the breadth of the author’s fame and literary output. The collection reveals Kerouac - whether drunk or sober, erudite or infantile, guarded…
Matt Theado
A companion to the novels of the king of the Beats. It introduces readers to what Matt Theado calls Kerouac’s ‘unwieldy accretion of published work’ - fiction, poetry, nonfiction, selected…
Written in 1957, but only recently rediscovered in manuscript form in a New Jersey warehouse, Beat Generation bears the hallmarks of vintage Kerouac: flowing, stream-of-consciousness language, orchestrated with a jazz-like…
La collezione Conoscere un'opera offre di sapere tutto su Sulla strada di Jack Kerouac, grazie a una scheda di lettura tanto completa quanto dettagliata. La scrittura, chiara e accessibile, e…
La collection Connaitre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilite de tout savoir du roman Sur la route, de Jack Kerouac, grace a une fiche de lecture aussi complete que detaillee…
The Literary Knowledge collection offers you the possibility to know everything about On the road by Jack Kerouac, thanks to a complete and detailed study guide. It was written clearly…
The definitive, unabridged edition of Jack Kerouac’s autobiography as told through dreams.
Written during 1951-52, this novel was an underground legend by the time it was finally published in 1972. Written in an experimental form, Kerouac created the ultimate account of his…
Presents the author’s high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship.
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Originally published in 1958, The Americans was part of a series of books that presented foreign countries through words and pictures. Frank personally supervised this latest edition that features a…
A tale of teenage romance in New England. It features the story of Jack and Maggie who are in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to…
The first major work by Jack Kerouac- written during his stint as a Merchant Marine and never before published in its entirety.
Lost during the author’s lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and brotherhood and a meditation on the desire to escape society, following the fortunes of two men as…
Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with…
Kerouac’s most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the…
