The Haunted Life - Jack Kerouac

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

The Haunted Life: And Other Writings (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback)

In 1944 under circumstances that remain rather mysterious an aspiring writer named Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript title 'The Haunted Life,' a coming-of-age story set in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.Kerouac set his fictional treatment of Peter Martin against the backdrop of

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

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

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics edition On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now

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

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,

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

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

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)

The Unknown Kerouac (Loa #283): Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings (Kerouac Jack)(Pevná vazba)

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

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

Můj bratr oceán - Jack Kerouac

Dosud nevydaný text z pozůstalosti Jacka Kerouaca, jeho první rozsáhlejší dílo. Kerouac ho napsal na základě svých zkušeností ze služby u obchodního námořnictva. Vydavatelé jeho text doplnili řadou dalších materiálů - tematicky a časově souvisejícími prozaickými fragmenty

Tristessa - Jack Kerouac

Jako většina děl Jacka Kerouaca je i útlá próza Tristessa založena na autorových zážitcích a spoluutváří onu 'velkou knihu autorova života', vedle tak slavných románů jako Na cestě, Dharmoví tuláci, Andělé zoufalství či Vize Codyho. Předobrazem hlavní hrdinky knihy,

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

On the Road: The Original Scroll (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

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

Doktor Sax - Jack Kerouac

Dílo Jacka Kerouaca lze rozdělit na romány 'ze silnice' a na romány popisující jeho dětství a dospívání v rodném Lowellu - a právě z druhé zmíněné skupiny pochází román Doktor Sax, jedno z autorových vrcholných, ale zároveň nejméně typických děl. Melancholické

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

On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback)

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road--typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a

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

Na ceste - Jack Kerouac

Román Na ceste spôsobil v Amerike konca päťdesiatych rokov kultúrny výbuch a Jack Kerouac sa stal ikonou novej, spontánnej a odtabuizovanej literatúry. Legendárna biblia bítnickej generácie je dnes jednou z najlepších kníh minulého storočia. Je generačnou výpoveďou a reakciou na

Podzemníci - Jack Kerouac

Útlou prózu Podzemníci prý Jack Kerouac napsal v benzedrinovém rauši za tři dny a noci. Ať už je to pravda, nebo ne, je nepochybné, že kniha dokonale naplňuje autorovu představu „spontánního psaní“, stylu, který Kerouac dle vlastních slov „sám objevil pro narativní