Jack Kerouac
1) On the road
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'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.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
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Kerouac's long-lost second novel is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realises how sheltered his upbringing has been. As he surveys the competing influences of his youth, he struggles to determine what might...
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Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2015.
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Kerouac's long-lost second novel is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realises how sheltered his upbringing has been. As he surveys the competing influences of his youth, he struggles to determine what might...
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2012
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Written in late 1942, the novel was inspired by Jack Kerouac's experiences of life at sea, after working the summer as a merchant marine. This volume also includes fragments of early stories and letters and commentary illuminating his development as a writer.
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Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2018
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'The Dharma Bums' is the story of a group of men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their search takes them to the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. In the end the wild life in San Francisco proves too attractive for them.