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ISBN: 9780141182674 - On the Road Bestseller On the Road
Jack Kerouac

ISBN10: 0141182679  ISBN13: 9780141182674
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 24 Feb 2000
Features 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. "On the Road" swings to the rhythms of 1950s... More
ISBN: 9780141198217 - Vanity of Duluoz Vanity of Duluoz
Jack Kerouac

ISBN10: 0141198214  ISBN13: 9780141198217
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
Presents the author's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, "Vanity of Duluoz" presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as... More
ISBN: 9780141198224 - Visions of Cody Visions of Cody
Jack Kerouac

ISBN10: 0141198222  ISBN13: 9780141198224
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
Offers an examination of the author's own New York life. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals a portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances... More
ISBN: 9780141198255 - Big Sur Big Sur
Jack Kerouac

ISBN10: 0141198257  ISBN13: 9780141198255
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2012
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 solitude again or die, so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. More
ISBN: 9780141198262 - Desolation Angels Desolation Angels
Jack Kerouac

ISBN10: 0141198265  ISBN13: 9780141198262
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2012
Tells the 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... More
ISBN: 9780141198231 - Satori in Paris Satori in Paris
Jack Kerouac

ISBN10: 0141198230  ISBN13: 9780141198231
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
A semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs. This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's own trip to France... More
ISBN: 9780241951538 - On the Road Bestseller On the Road
Jack Kerouac

ISBN10: 0241951534  ISBN13: 9780241951538
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: Re-issue
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Apr 2011
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 through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an... More
ISBN: 9780141184883 - The Dharma Bums The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

ISBN10: 0141184884  ISBN13: 9780141184883
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Aug 2000
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 sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. "The Dharma Bums" appeared just one year... More
ISBN: 9780141193335 - The Sea is My Brother The Sea is My Brother
Jack Kerouac

ISBN10: 0141193336  ISBN13: 9780141193335
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 24 Nov 2011
A novel that follows the fortunes of Wesley Martin, a man who the author said 'loved the sea with a strange, lonely love; the sea is his brother and sentences. He goes down.' Published in its entirety for the first time, "The Sea is My Brother" is... More
ISBN: 9780141198248 - Doctor Sax Doctor Sax
Jack Kerouac

ISBN10: 0141198249  ISBN13: 9780141198248
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2012
Presents an autobiographical account of the author's growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and... More