Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.
Presents the previously unpublished original scroll edition of Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" which Kerouac wrote over a three-week period in 1951 on eight sheets of tracing paper that he taped together to form a 120-foot scroll, and includes the real names of the friends that inspired the book's storyline.
Presents a thinly fictionalized autobiography of Jack Kerouac's cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty.
Anthology of Kerouac's writings including selections from the series of autobiographical novels called The legend of Duluoz with an identity key matching the characters with the real people they represent.
Reprint of a 1958 novel by Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac, in which Leo Percepied, a writer in underground San Francisco, makes an important discovery about himself and his life at the moment when his lover is leaving him.
