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This is the ORIGINAL SCROLL: the first ever publication of Kerouac's original draft for the book - transcribed from the famous 'scroll': hundreds of typed pages which constitute the manuscript taped together by Kerouac himself.
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 country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance.
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On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalised autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers and fellow travellers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, this cross-country bohemian odyssey not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. -- Acton Lane
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'A kind of literary James Dean' -- Hanif Kureishi
'A pean to what kerouac described as "The ragged and ecstatic
joy of pure being"' -- Sunday Times
'It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' -- Bob Dylan
'It changed my life like it changed everyone else's'
-- Bob Dylan
'ON THE ROAD sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso
machines, and also sent countless kids on the road...' -- William Burroughs
'The novel that "On the Road" became was inarguably the book that young people needed in 1957, but the sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version for our time.'
-- New York Times Book Review, 19 August 2007 The New York Times Book Review, August 19, 2007
'A pean to what kerouac described as "The ragged and ecstatic
joy of pure being"' -- Sunday Times
'It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' -- Bob Dylan
'It changed my life like it changed everyone else's'
-- Bob Dylan
'ON THE ROAD sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso
machines, and also sent countless kids on the road...' -- William Burroughs
'The novel that "On the Road" became was inarguably the book that young people needed in 1957, but the sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version for our time.'
-- New York Times Book Review, 19 August 2007 The New York Times Book Review, August 19, 2007
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 184614020X
- ISBN 13 9781846140204
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
- EditorCunnell Howard
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. London. Penguin Classics/Penguin Group. First Edition/First Printing (1 printed under first published 2007 to copyright page). Hard Cover. Condition is new with complete bellyband and original adhesive stickers. Decorated endpapers. Quarter bound black cloth spine over decorative manuscript boards. No dust jacket as issued. On the Road: The Original Scroll (Hardback) By Kerouac, Jack This is the original scroll: the first ever publication of Kerouac's original draft for the book - transcribed from the famous 'scroll': hundreds of typed pages which constitute the manuscript taped together by Kerouac himself. "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 country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make 'On the Road' an inspirational work of lasting importance. A scarce first printing in fine condition. The boards will be protected with a new inert archival 100 micron sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Seller Inventory # 16MAY2023018
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