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On the Road

On the Road - Paperback

by Jack Kerouac
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2002-12-31Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780142437254ISBN-10:142437255UPC:9780142437254Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, Coming of AgeSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC4QSBH590
The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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 quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance. 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 fifty years ago. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Ann Charters.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780142437254ISBN-10:142437255UPC:9780142437254Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, Coming of AgeSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC4QSBH590
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.

Ann Charters, a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar, is professor of American Literature emerita at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. in 1966, she worked with Kerouac to compile his bibliography, and was the only biographer who interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books. She is the author of his first biography, Kerouac, in 1973. She edited his posthumous poetry collection, Scattered Poems. She is also the editor of numerous books on Beat and other literature, including The Portable Beat Reader, The Portable Sixties Reader, Beat Down to Your Soul, The Portable Jack Kerouac Reader, and two volumes of Kerouac's Selected Letters.


Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (Introduction by)

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Jack Kerouac

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