Puffin Clothbound Classics: On the Road

- Titles in the Series -

A Christmas Carol
Animal Farm
Around the World in Eighty Days
Black Beauty
Frankenstein
Grimm Tales: For Young and Old
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The
Little Prince, The
Lonely Londoners, The
Monkey King: Journey to the West
Mrs Dalloway
Nineteen Eighty-Four
On the Road
Outsider, The
Tales from Shakespeare
Tales of the Greek Heroes
Treasure Island
Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories, The
Ulysses
Wizard of Oz, The
Wuthering Heights

- Reviews -

The most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as "beat" * The New York Times * Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience -- Hanif Kureishi * Independent on Sunday * On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road -- William Burroughs

- Author Bio -

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, where, he said, he ' roamed fields and riverbanks by day and night, wrote little novels in my room, first novel written at age eleven, also kept extensive diaries and "newspapers" covering my own-invented horse-racing and baseball and football worlds' (as recorded in the novel Doctor Sax). He was educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell. He said that he ' decided to become a writer at age seventeen under influence of Sebastian Sampas, local young poet, who later died on Anzio beach head; read the life of Jack London at eighteen and decided to also be a lonesome traveler; early literary influences Saroyan and Hemingway; later Wolfe (after I had broken leg in Freshman football at Columbia read Tom Wolfe and roamed his New York on crutches). ' Kerouac wished, however, to develop his own new prose style, which he called ' spontaneous prose. ' He used this technique to record the life of the American ' traveler' and the experiences of the Beat generation of the 1950s. This may clearly be seen in his most famous novel On the Road, and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His first more orthodox published novel was The Town and the City. Jack Kerouac, who described himself as a ' strange solitary crazy Catholic mystic,' was working on his longest novel, a surrealistic study of the last ten years of his life when he died in 1969, aged forty-seven. Other works by Jack Kerouac include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. On the Road- The Original Scroll, the full uncensored transcription of the original manuscript of On the Road, is published by Penguin Modern Classics.

- Full Details -

Status:	Active
ISBN-13:	9780241552643
Published:	3 Mar 2022
Published In:	United Kingdom
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Publisher:	Penguin Books
Format:	Hardback
Height:	204mm
Width:	138mm
Spine:	31mm
Weight:	436g
Pages:	320

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