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Jack Kerouac
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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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…
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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.
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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…
From famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes a collection of essays and stories compiled from journal entries he made during his travels.
In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals…
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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…
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
In the nearly seven decades since its…
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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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…
Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning…
Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life--the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957.
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Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man.
This book presents the formative…
From the most famous of the Beat writers and the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac's intoxicating love story of two young bohemians
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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 Pic--full name Pictorial…
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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…
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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…
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…
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…
In this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up, as Kerouac himself did, in the dingy factory town…
The first book in Kerouac's Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer's early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother
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Jack Kerouac’s Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics edition
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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 satori, in Kerouac's own words, is "the Japanese word for 'sudden illumination, ' 'sudden awakening, ' or simply 'kick in the eye.'"
This is a story of philosophy, identity…
Doctor Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence.
Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac's own birthplace, the dingy factory…
Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak…I can feel it.
In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two…
A coming of age story, which draws on the author’s New England childhood.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
