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On the Road: the Original Scroll

On the Road: the Original Scroll

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Jack Kerouac
Paperback
Age range: 18 to null Publication Date: 26/08/2008

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

"The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing."--The New York Times Book Review

During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road--typed as a long, single-spaced paragraph on eight sheets of tracing paper, which he taped together to form a scroll. Representing the identifiable point at which his vision and narrative voice first came together in a sustained burst of creative energy, the scroll is the "uncut" version of Kerouac's masterpiece--rougher, wilder, and more sexually explicit than the edited work that appeared in 1957. On the Road: The Original Scroll is Kerouac's signature achievement--and one of the most significant, celebrated, and provocative documents in American literary history.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing 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.

ISBN:
9780143105466
9780143105466
Category:
Classic fiction
Age range:
18 to null
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-08-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
211.58x143x25.91mm
Weight:
0.44kg
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. In 1947, enthused by bebop, the rebel attitude of his friend Neal Cassidy, and the throng of hobos, drug addicts and hustlers he encountered in New York, he decided to discover America and hitchhhike across the country.

His writing was openly autobiographical and he developed a style he referred to as 'spontaneous prose' which he used to record the experiences of the Beat Generation. Among his many novels are On the Road, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He died in 1969.

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