The beat goes on. Sie sind immer unterwegs, auf Trips quer durch den amerikanischen Kontinent. Sie berauschen sich an der Natur, an Drogen, am Jazz, am Sex. Atemlos erzahlt Jack Kerouac in seinem autobiographischen Roman von der Suche nach dem Gluck, nach Freiheit, nach der gro?en Liebe, nach der ultimativen Party....

\"I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday\" Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac\"s most significant and emblematic poem....

\"The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious eyes\" Described by Kerouac as \"my most serious sad and true book\", Visions of Gerard forms the first volume of his memoir cycle the \"Duluoz Legend\"....

\"She understands Karma, she says: \\\"What I do, I reap\\\"\" Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar to the Virgin Mary....

Kerouac\"s last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one innocent, adventurous boy. \"Pic\", or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-year-old boy from North Carolina. When his grandfather dies and he is sent to live with another relative, his older brother, Slim, comes to rescue him....

\"I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else\"s\" Bob Dylan Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States....

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry. \"See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart . . . \" Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation....

Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, \"King of the Beats\", needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to \"get away to solitude again or die\"....

Jack Kerouac\"s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac\"s The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas....

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on......

2019 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity....

2019 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The Book of Dreams is a description of what Kerouac saw in his sleep as actual dreams, not his daydreams or waking reveries....

Contemporary / American English One of the most famous American books of the century. Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal Paradise\"s adventures \\\"on the road\\\" with wild friend Dean Moriarty, and their crazy companions,......

The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realizes how sheltered his upbringing has been....

Tells the story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realises how sheltered his upbringing has been....