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
Published Oct. 11, 2002 by Penguin USA.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-200274-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 52974011
On the Road
English language
Published Aug. 26, 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-310546-6Copied ISBN!
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
English language
Published May 13, 2011
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-311954-8Copied ISBN!
On the road.
310 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1958 by Viking Press.
- OCLC Number:
- 14941777
Sur La Route
611 pages
French language
Published May 1, 2012 by Éditions Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-044469-4Copied ISBN!
En el camino (Compactos Anagrama) (Compactos Anagrama)
Paperback, 364 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 15, 2005 by Editorial Anagrama.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-339-2014-0Copied ISBN!
On the Road
English language
Published Sept. 3, 1998
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-027415-8Copied ISBN!
On the road
English language
Published May 8, 2008 by Penguin Books, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-103748-6Copied ISBN!
Sur la Route / On the Road
Mass Market Paperback, 436 pages
French language
Published March 11, 1999 by Editions Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-036766-5Copied ISBN!
On the Road
Electronic resource
English language
Published Nov. 11, 2009 by Penguin USA, Inc..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-101-12173-3Copied ISBN!
On the road.
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1959 by Viking Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-670-52512-6Copied ISBN!
On the Road
Electronic resource
English language
Published Nov. 11, 2008 by Penguin USA, Inc..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4295-5097-0Copied ISBN!
Jack Kerouac
English language
Published Sept. 1, 2007
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59853-012-4Copied ISBN!
On the Road
English language
Published May 8, 2011 by Penguin Books, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-119820-0Copied ISBN!
On the Road
paperback
German language
Published Dec. 1, 2011 by Rowohlt Taschenbuch.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-499-25383-6Copied ISBN!
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