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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- BNF ID:
- 11953706m
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On the Road
MP3 CD
English language
Published March 11, 2005 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7861-9666-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 47743533
On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
304 pages
English language
Published June 1, 1999 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
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- 978-0-14-028329-7Copied ISBN!
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
307 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1997 by Viking.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-670-87478-1Copied 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
Sulla strada
389 pages
Italian language
Published Sept. 22, 2001
- ISBN:
- 978-88-04-48769-2Copied ISBN!
On the road
290 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1972 by Penguin Books, Viking Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-003192-8Copied ISBN!
On the road
307 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 2003 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-243725-4Copied ISBN!
On the Road
286 pages
English language
Published May 13, 2011 by Penguin Books, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-95153-8Copied ISBN!
On the road
280 pages
English language
Published May 13, 2000 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-118267-4Copied ISBN!
On the road
416 pages
English language
Published May 8, 2008 by Penguin Books, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-118921-5Copied ISBN!
On the road
605 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1979 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-015511-2Copied ISBN!
Sulla strada
Libro, Tascabile, 336 pages
Italian language
Published Nov. 11, 1989 by Mondadori.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-04-32581-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 635980667
On the Road
Hardcover, 320 pages
English language
Published May 13, 2007 by Viking Adult.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-670-06326-0Copied ISBN!
Avant la route
512 pages
French language
Published Nov. 11, 1990 by Québec/Amerique.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-89037-480-5Copied ISBN!
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