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  | | On the Road(1st Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Jack Kerouac Paperback, 293 Pages, Published 1999 by Penguin Books Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-14-028329-7, ISBN: 0-14-028329-3 "The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generationInspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivete and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Roa ..." |
 | | Desolation Angels(1st Edition) by Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson, John Kerouac Paperback, 409 Pages, Published 1995 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57322-505-2, ISBN: 1-57322-505-3 "With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became at once the spokesman and hero of the Beat Generation. Along with such visionaries as William S. Burroughs, NealCassady, and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac changed the face of American literature, igniting a counterculture revolution that even now, decades later, burns brighter than ever in Desolation Angels. In one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's legendary ..." |
 | | On the Road The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jack Kerouac, George Mouratidis, Penny Vlagopoulos, Joshua Kupetz, Howard Cunnell Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2008 by Penguin Classics Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-14-310546-6, ISBN: 0-14-310546-9 "The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets ..." |
 | | Piers of the Homeless Night(1st Edition) by Jack Kerouac, Willa Cather Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-241-33918-3, ISBN: 0-241-33918-9 "'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart . . . ' Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation." |
 | | ON THE ROAD(Reprint) PENGUIN CLASSICS / ANN CHARTERS INTRODUCTION by Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters Paperback, 307 Pages, Published 2012 by Penguin Us Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-243725-4, ISBN: 0-14-243725-5 "The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generationInspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivete and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Roa ..." |
 | | Visions of Cody(Reprint) by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1993 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-017907-1, ISBN: 0-14-017907-0 ""What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." —Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes Written in 1951-52, Visions of Cody was an underground legend by the time it was finally published in 1972. Writing in a radical, experimental ..." |
 | | On the Road(16th Edition) (Penguin Orange Collection) by Jack Kerouac, Unknown Unknown Paperback, 307 Pages, Published 1976 by Penguin Books Abridged ISBN-13: 978-0-14-004259-7, ISBN: 0-14-004259-8 "The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generationInspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivete and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Roa ..." |
 | | Jack Kerouac(1st Edition) Road Novels 1957-1960: On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans / Tristessa / Lonesome Traveler / Journal Selections (Library of America) by Jack Kerouac, Douglas G. Brinkley, Contributor-Douglas Brinkley Hardcover, 864 Pages, Published 2007 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-59853-012-4, ISBN: 1-59853-012-7 "The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, “the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as ‘beat.’” Written in the mode of ecstatic improvisation that Allen Ginsberg described as “spontaneous bop p ..." |
 | | Big Sur by Jack Kerouac Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 2019 by Warbler Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-73402-926-0, ISBN: 1-73402-926-9 "Five years after On the Road, the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines with wrenching clarity his unwished for fame, escalating alcoholism, and troubling alienation from nature. In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and with friends in San Francisco—among them fellow iconoclasts Neal Cassady, Gary Snyder, and Alan Watts—he chronicles a ruinous alco ..." |
 | | Desolation Angels(1st Edition) (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2012 by Penguin Press/Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-119826-2, ISBN: 0-14-119826-5 "Paperback. Pub Date :2012-05-03 Pages: 384 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road. told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg. Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch. hop freight trains. walk and talk their way acro ..." |
 | | Wake Up A Life of the Buddha by Jack Kerouac Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2008 by Penguin Audio ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118946-8, ISBN: 0-14-118946-0 "Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, Jack Kerouac's Wake Up is a clear and powerful study of the life and works of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, from the author of On the Road. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robert Thurman.Wake Up recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's royal upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he w ..." |
 | | The Scripture of the Golden Eternity(1st Edition) (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Jack Kerouac, Eric Mottram, Anne Waldman Paperback, 62 Pages, Published 2001 by City Lights Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-291-3, ISBN: 0-87286-291-7 "These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet’s beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe."The Scripture of the Golden Eternity is fueled by Kerouac's discerning meditation on the nature of impermanence & consciousness, subtle like the dharma it invokes. We're here to disappear, therefore let's be as vivid & generous as we can. The intelligence & compassion behind this text is st ..." |
 | | Some of the Dharma by Jack Kerouac Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 1999 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-028707-3, ISBN: 0-14-028707-8 "Written during a critical period of his life, Some of the Dharma is a key volume for understanding Kerouac and the spiritual underpinnings of his work. While his future masterpiece, On the Road, languished on the desks of unresponsive editors, Kerouac turned to Buddhist practice, and in 1953 began compiling reading notes on the subject intended for his friend Allen Ginsberg. As Kerouac's Buddhist meditation practice intensified, what ..." |
 | | Mexico City Blues(Reprint) (242 Choruses) by Jack Kerouac Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1994 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3060-0, ISBN: 0-8021-3060-7 "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 loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic. "I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday. I take 242 choruses; my ideas vary and sometimes roll from ..." |
 | | Mexico City Blues (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-241-38894-5, ISBN: 0-241-38894-5 "'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic. 'A spontaneous bo ..." |
 | | The Dharma Bums(1st Edition) (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac, Ann Douglas Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-241-34806-2, ISBN: 0-241-34806-4 "Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas. Following the explosive energy of On the Road, the book that put the Beat Genration on the literary map - and Jack Kerouac on ..." |
 | | On the Road(1st Edition) by Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters, Penguin Classics Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-241-34795-9, ISBN: 0-241-34795-5 "'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob Dylan Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller 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 ..." |
 | | The Haunted Life(1st Edition) and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac, Todd F. Tietchen Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-82304-6, ISBN: 0-306-82304-7 "1944 was a troubled and momentous year for Jack Kerouac. In March, his close friend and literary confidant, Sebastian Sampas, lost his life on the Anzio beachhead while serving as a US Army medic. That spring—still reeling with grief over Sebastian—Kerouac solidified his friendships with Lucien Carr, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, offsetting the loss of Sampas by immersing himself in New York's blossoming mid-century bohemia. Th ..." |
 | | On the Road(Reprint) (movie tie-in) by Jack Kerouac Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-312028-5, ISBN: 0-14-312028-X "The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation—made into a 2012 film by Walter Salles, director of The Motorcycle DiariesSeptember 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the RoadInspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture ..." |
 | | On the Road(1st Edition) by Jack Kerouac Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 2012 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-026500-2, ISBN: 0-14-026500-7 "Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund, Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen. Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriart ..." |
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