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Satori in Paris by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This 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, contains some of Kerouac's most lyrical descriptions. From his reports of the strangers he meets and the all-night conversations he e ...Show more
Someday We'll Build Cabins - The Letters of Jack Kerouac, Jacques Beckwith , and Lois Sorrells Beckwith by Jack Kerouac; Jacques Beckwith (As told to); Lois Sorrells Beckwith (As told to)
Category: Classic Fiction
A book of letters revealing the inner desires and turmoils of Jack Kerouac after his rise to literary acclaim in the 1960s.In 1960, Jack Kerouac began a correspondence with a New York artist by the name of Jacques Beckwith. The basic subject of their letters was always the same. They each longed to buil ...Show more
Subterraneans by Kerouac Jack
Category: Cult Fiction | Series: JK
Written over the course of three days and three nights, "The Subterraneans" was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classics, "On the Road." Centering around the tempestuous brekup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox -- two denizens of ...Show more
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men enganged 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 by Jack Kerouac; Ann Douglas (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Great Kerouac Ser.
Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by A ...Show more
The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction
Published in its entirety for the first time, "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's first novel. Described by Kerouac as being about 'man's simple revolt from society as it is, with the inequalities, frustration, and self-inflicted agonies', the 158-page handwritten manuscript was not published duri ...Show more
The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac
Category: Classic | Series: JK
"His first novel is a revelation ...the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ...wonderful". ("The Times"). "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and b ...Show more
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac; Ann Douglas (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classic, On The Road. Centering on the tempestous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox--two denizens of the 1950s San Fran ...Show more
The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A coming of age story, which draws on the author's New England childhood.
The Unknown Kerouac - Rare, Unpublished, and Newly Translated Writings by Jack Kerouac; Todd Tietchen (Editor); Jean-Christophe Cloutier (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Library of America Ser.
In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as never before the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success--a journey with deep r ...Show more
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties. Wrapped in a spiritual atmos ...Show more