On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Kerouac, Jack

On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143105466)

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On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Kerouac, Jack

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

$19.00
On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Kerouac, Jack

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

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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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 on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic--rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily edited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creative history, represents the first full expression of Kerouac's revolutionary aesthetic.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author: Jack Kerouac
ISBN-10: 0143105469
ISBN-13: 9780143105466
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2008
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.65w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/12/2008 pg. 32
By Jack Kerouac
By Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.

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