Jack Kerouac
And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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... Buy or find out more →
On The Road Original Scroll
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Sal Paradise, a young 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... Buy or find out more →
On The Road
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Sal Paradise, a young 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... Buy or find out more →
On The Road The Original Scroll
$22.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Viking
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... Buy or find out more →
Visions Of Gerard
$21.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
"His life . . . ended when he was nine and the nuns of St. Louis de France Parochial School were at his bedside to take down his dying workds becase they'd he... Buy or find out more →
Some Of The Dharma
$41.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
While his future masterpiece, On the Road, languished on the desks o... Buy or find out more →
Scripture Of The Golden Eternity
$17.95 – Paperback book / City Lights
These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet’s beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe. Buy or find out more →
Poetry For The Beat Generation
$29.95 – Compact disc / Emi
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Jack Kerouac King Of The Beats
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Virgin Publishing
On The Road
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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... Buy or find out more →
The Town And The City
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
The town is Galloway in Massachusetts, birthplace of the five sons and three daughters of the Martin family in the early 1900s. The city is New York, the vast and heaving melting pot, which lures them all in search of fu... Buy or find out more →
Dharma Bums
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yo... Buy or find out more →
Subterraneans
$21.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Penguin
Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled free-wheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, part Negro, part Cherokee, bea... Buy or find out more →
Windblown World: The Journals Of Jack Kerouac 1947 - 1954
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
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 Ke... Buy or find out more →
On The Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Viking
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, pu... Buy or find out more →
On The Road: The Original Scroll
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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... Buy or find out more →
On The Road: The Original Scroll
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years travelling 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 qu... Buy or find out more →
Lonesome Traveller
$10.00 – Paperback book / Penguin
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witne... Buy or find out more →
Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On The Road (They're Not What You Think)
$46.00$16.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Usa
Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the novel than that.
In Why Kerouac Matters, John Leland embarks on a wry, i... Buy or find out more →
The Dharma Bums
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Published just one year after On The Road, this is the story of two men enganged 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 Si... Buy or find out more →
And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerer, whose sexual advances he'd seemingly grown tired of rejecting.... Buy or find out more →
Wake Up
$10.00 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Never published in Kerouac's lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddhartha Gautama's life and works. Wake Up recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's royal upbringi... Buy or find out more →