Book of Haikus (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Book of Haikus (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Renowned for his Beat Generation novel 'On the Road', Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Written by a Kerouac scholar, this work supplements a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of the rest of

Tristessa (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Kniha haiku - Jack Kerouac

Ačkoli se Jack Kerouac proslavil především jako prozaik, psal také vynikající poezii – mnozí literární historici jsou dokonce toho názoru, že Kerouacovy básně jeho prózu co do kvality předčí. Tak či onak, je nepochybné, že jedním z vrcholů autorova básnického díla jsou

Visions of Gerard (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Penguin Book of Haiku(Paperback / softback)

First Penguin volume Of best Japanese haiku Vivid translations Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by

Pic (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Dharma Bums (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Lonesome Traveler (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Big Sur (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Big Sur (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to get away to solitude again or die, so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast

Desolation Angels (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring 'one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature' (Time)-now in a new edition Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life-the period that led up to the

The Haunted Life - Jack Kerouac

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

Lonesome Traveler (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of

Subterraneans (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bitter-sweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at

Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America (McNally Dennis)(Paperback)

'A blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent.'--San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac--'King of the Beats,' unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the

Maggie Cassidy (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

A tale of teenage romance in New England. It features the story of Jack and Maggie who are in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation. It captures the intensity and the ordinariness of adolescent life, with its torments and complications. It also

Visions of Cody (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Offers an examination of the author's own New York life. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals a portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one

The Portable Jack Kerouac (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback)

The definitive Kerouac collection-now in Penguin Classics To coincide with the 50th anniversary celebration of On the Road, Penguin Classics republishes this landmark collection. The Portable Jack Kerouac made clear the ambition and accomplishment of Kerouac's 'Legend of Duluoz'-the story of his

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice - neither had told the

Mexico City Blues (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

'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. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz

On the Road (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road,

Doctor Sax (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Presents an autobiographical account of the author's growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of his

Wake Up - A Life of the Buddha (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

A biography of the founder of Buddhism and a study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works. It recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. It offers an

On the Road (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

'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. Their hedonistic search for release or