Jack Kerouac
1) On the road
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Series
Language
English
Description
Behind us lay the whole of America and everything Dean and I had previously known about life, and life on the road. We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic. 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 and jazz...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: A deluxe edition of Kerouac's masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of its first publication. First published in 1958, a year after On the Road had put the Beat generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful, influential, and bestselling novels. The story focuses on two untrammeled young Americans-mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer-whose...
4) Big Sur
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
vi, 241 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Description of Big Sur Jack Kerouac shot to literary fame in 1957 with the publication of his iconic book of the Beat Generation, On the Road. Kerouac was termed "King of the Beats," a mantle he was entirely uncomfortable with. Along with Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and several others forged a new literary voice and attitude — it was a movement that often mocked and challenged the American status quo....
Author
Series
Library of America volume 283
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxxiv,466 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 216 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. Written seven years before The Town and The City officially...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xx, 339 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Book of Dreams is an experimental novel published by Jack Kerouac in 1960, culled from the dream journal he kept from 1952 to 1960. In it Kerouac tries to continue plot-lines with characters from his books as he sees them in his dreams. This book is stylistically wild, spontaneous, and flowing, like much of Kerouac's writing, and helps to give insight into the Beat Generation author's mind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
194 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Jack Kerouac's teenage years his friends gave him a nickname that was prescient and stuck with him throughout his life-Memory Babe. Kerouac was able to conjure up scenes from his childhood and adolescence that astounded his friends with their precision and detail. This talent was to serve him well as a novelist, enabling him to recall long segments of conversation that he could instantly pound out on his typewriter. Maggie Cassidy is one of Kerouac's...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 174
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
864 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collector's edition of five works by the late Beat Generation classic writer combines the eminent "On the Road" with the novels, "The Dharma Bums," "The Subterraneans," "Tristessa," and "Lonesome Traveler."
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Written during a critical period of his life, Some of the Dharma is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's vast autobiographical canon. He began writing it in 1953 as reading notes on Buddhism intended for his friend, poet Allen Ginsberg. As Kerouac's Buddhist study and meditation practice intensified, what had begun as notes evolved into a vast and all-encompassing work of nonfiction into which he poured his life, incorporating poems, haiku, prayers, journal...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxvii, 500 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating...
15) Collected poems
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Series
Library of America volume 231
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
xxx, 746 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac's sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac's major poetic works--Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Poems All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus--along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote poetry in every period of his life, in forms as diverse as...
16) Visions of Cody
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
c1972
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
x, 193 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In late 1944, aspiring writer Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life. Set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story follows Peter Martin, a character based on the author's recently departed friend Sebastian Sampas. At home in the working-class town the summer before his sophomore year at Boston College, Peter finds himself conflicted. Like many Americans,...
19) Book of haikus
Author
Publisher
Penguin Poets
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xxxix, 200 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Language
English
