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  • On the Road

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel of freedom and the search for originality that defined a generation“An authentic work of art.”—The New York TimesInspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon and imbued ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Dharma Bums

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature“In [On the Road] Kerouac’s heroes were sensation seekers; now they are seekers after truth . . . the novel often attains a beautiful dignity.”—Chicago TribuneFirst published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac’s most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Town and the City

    A Novel

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    A quintessential American family is pulled apart by war and the rapidly changing tides of society in Jack Kerouac's captivating first novelPublished seven years before his iconic On the Road, Jack Kerouac's debut novel follows the experiences of one family as they navigate the seismic cultural shifts following World War II. Inspired by Kerouac's own New England youth, the eight Martin children ... Read more

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  • Big Sur

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    Jack Kerouac's Big Sur is a raw, introspective novel that captures the turbulent aftermath of fame and the existential crisis of a man seeking solace in isolation. Written in Kerouac's signature spontaneous prose, the book follows his alter ego, Jack Duluoz, as he retreats to a remote cabin in Big Sur, California, hoping to escape the pressures of literary success and the self-destructive cycle of ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • On the Road: The Original Scroll

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed itThough Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Poetry of Jack Kerouac

    Scattered Poems, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, and Old Angel Midnight

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    From the iconic New York Times–bestselling author of On the Road: Three revolutionary collections of poetry in one volume.Rebelling against the dry rules and literary pretentiousness he perceived in early twentieth-century poetry, Jack Kerouac pioneered a poetic style informed by oral tradition and driven by concrete language with neither embellishment nor abstraction. In these three ... Read more

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  • Big Sur

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the acclaimed author of On the Road“In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac’s best book . . . certainly he has never displayed more ‘gentle sweetness.’”—San Francisco ChronicleJack Kerouac’s alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Audiobook

    The Dharma Bums

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    Narrated by Ethan Hawke ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 16 min

    Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature“In [On the Road] Kerouac’s heroes were sensation seekers; now they are seekers after truth . . . the novel often attains a beautiful dignity.”—Chicago TribuneFirst published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac’s most ... Read more

    $17.50 USD

  • Book of Haikus

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy“Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.”—Jack KerouacRenowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Doctor Sax

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachussetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Big Sur (Annotated)

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    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 ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Book of Dreams

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    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. ... Read more

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