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'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 On the...

Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings, alongside ON THE ROAD, THE TOWN AND THE CITY & THE SUBTERRANEANS As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and...

Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings. THE DHARMA BUMS appeared just one year after the author's explosive ON THE ROAD had put the Beat Generation on the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg- 'a narrative meditation...

Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, now in A-format In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication...

Kerouac's famed freewheeling poem joins the Penguin Modern Classics 'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday' Freewheeling and...

The exhilerating novel that defined the Beat Generation 'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.'...

Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of...

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Kerouac's autobiographical account of his Beat years, new to Penguin Modern Classics Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who...

Now in paperback, The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's first novel The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's first novel. Described by Kerouac as being about 'man's...

An experimental and colourful novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York...

A haunting portrayal of addiction and a troubled young woman 'She understands Karma, she says- \"What I do, I reap\"' Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine...

One of Kerouac's most enduring and touching works The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living...

A heart-breaking road-trip across America, based on Kerouac's own memories of childhood It's 1948, and when ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson's guardian dies, his older brother Slim appears. Together, the two...

"You have a unique viewpoint from which to write about Jack as no one else has or could write. I feel very deeply that this book must be written. And...

The spectacular debut novel by one of the century's great cult novelists, and author of the best-selling ON THE ROAD. 'It is the sum of myself, as far as the...

A stunning lost novella which provides invaluable insight into the young writer's life The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle...

Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings, alongside ON THE ROAD, THE TOWN AND THE CITY & THE SUBTERRANEANS As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and...

A devastating semi-autobiographical novel and the first volume of Kerouac's memoir cycle Gerard Duluoz was born in 1917, 'a sickly little kid with a rheumatic heart'. Based on Jack Kerouac's...

The story of Kerouac's sporting alter-ego, new to Penguin Modern Classics The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in...

One of Kerouac's most accessible novels, Maggie Cassidy offers a remarkable evocation of the awkwardness and joy of growing up Moodily atmospheric, full of verve and energy, Maggie Cassidy is...

The best introduction I know of America's liveliest post-war literary movement." -Edmund White Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat...

The Letters of William S. Burroughs, new to Penguin Modern Classics and in paperback edition These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years...

It falls down. It burns up. It goes Beatnik in the fifties and crazy in the sixties. It stays elegant throughout. Every city has its stories, but San Francisco seems...

'The first and, in some respects, still one of the best novels about the Beat Generation... brilliant and important' The Los Angeles Free Press The novel that launched the beat...

Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas. Some truly remarkable works of...

Take the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology of travel writing. Travelling's never been easier. Wherever you are, find yourself...

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Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box A Booker longlisting, a Pulitzer winner in 1970s Harlem, a new Adichie, and Murakami in a deluxe gift edition. The range runs wide here. Shūsaku...

Take the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology of travel writing. Travelling's never been easier. Wherever you are, find yourself...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA vivid and sprawling memoir, Vibrations: The Adventures and Musical...

At Holiday magazine's peak, urbane editor, Ted Patrick, and visionary art director, Frank Zachary, invited postwar America to see and read about the world. On the journey, readers joined the...

The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period-from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963--it...

Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas. Some truly remarkable works of...

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his name as a defining figure of...

A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving literary works The Call of the Wild, London's elemental masterpiece about...

'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt a pivotal moment in American literary culture, The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction assembles some of the sharpest critical...

A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Remainder markFrom one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Jacko, a bold and irreverent novel that thrusts readers into the...

"Funny and shrewd" ( The New York Times Book Review ) essays from China's most popular young troublemaker about growing up millennial and causing social and political scandal today. Han...

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