On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and …
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On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx), and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise. The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was published by Viking Press in 1957. The New York Times hailed the book's appearance as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
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- 2552
- BNF ID:
- 11953706m
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Pela Estrada Fora
Paperback, 404 pages
Portuguese language
Published 1998 by Relógio D'Água Editores.
- ISBN:
- 978-972-708-390-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 9374995
On the Road
320 pages
English language
Published May 13, 1957 by Viking Press.
- OCLC Number:
- 50097
- Goodreads:
- 2552
On the Road
Paperback, 304 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 2012 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-312028-5Copied ISBN!
On the Road
Paperback, 307 pages
English language
Published May 13, 1976 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-004259-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 21767041
- Goodreads:
- 70401
On the road
Paperback, 310 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1976 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-004259-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 21767041
On the road
310 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1985 by Buccaneer Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-89966-134-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 34085607
Sur la route
mass market paperback, 538 pages
French language
Published Nov. 28, 1997 by Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-039403-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 828567
On the road
307 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 2005 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-303638-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 61409731
On the Road
Audio CD, 350 pages
English language
Published March 11, 2005 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7861-8043-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 43837973
On the Road
Audio CD, 10 pages
English language
Published Oct. 18, 2007 by Penguin Audio.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-314273-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 176634780
Sur la route
505 pages
French language
Published Nov. 11, 2010 by Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-012183-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 727068068
On the road
254 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1957 by New American Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-451-08973-1Copied ISBN!
Zai sheng ming di lü tu zhong
342 pages
Chinese language
Published Nov. 11, 1999 by Xin yü chu ban she.
- ISBN:
- 978-957-733-419-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 43965455
On the Road
Audio cassette, 300 pages
English language
Published March 11, 2005 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
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- 978-0-7861-3466-3Copied ISBN!
On the road
310 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1991 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-018521-8Copied ISBN!
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