Jack Kerouac

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the...

On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Jack Kerouac & Howard Cunnell

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it

IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph...

The Dharma Bums

by Jack Kerouac

One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in...

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

by Jack Kerouac

"[An] essential Beat masterpiece." --The Village Voice.

Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the process...

Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha

by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac?s profound meditations on the Buddha?s life and religion

In the mid-1950s, Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that had a significant impact on his ideas...

Visions of Gerard: A Novel

by Jack Kerouac

"My best most serious sad and true book yet." —Jack Kerouac "His life . . . ended when he was nine and the nuns of St. Louis de France Parochial School were at his bedside to take down his dying workds becase...

The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel

by Jack Kerouac

The first major work by Jack Kerouac—never previously published in its entirety—now with related early writing and correspondence

Book of Sketches

by Jack Kerouac & George Condo

A never-before-published book of poems by Jack Kerouac-in a deluxe package

In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on...

Book of Blues

by Jack Kerouac & Robert Creeley

Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in...

Tristessa

by Jack Kerouac & Aram Saroyan

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his...

Maggie Cassidy

by Jack Kerouac

When someone asks 'Where does [Kerouac] get that stuff?' say: 'From you!' He lay awake all night listening with eyes and ears. A night of a thousand years. Heard it in the womb, heard it in the cradle, heard...

Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

by Jack Kerouac

Originally subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946," Vanity of Duluoz is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the...

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

by William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac

In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tale of bohemian...

The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel

by Jack Kerouac

The long-awaited release of On the Road author Jack Kerouac’s lost first novel, now published in North America for the first time 

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

Kerouac's quintessential novel of America and the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, ""a sideburned hero of the snowy...

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg

by Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg

[An] essential Beat masterpiece." --The Village Voice.

Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the process...

Big Sur: (Penguin Ink)

by Jack Kerouac & Aram Saroyan

Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own...

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

by Jack Kerouac & Paul Marion

Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together...