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On the Road

(Penguin Orange Collection)

By Jack Kerouac

By Jack Kerouac

By Jack Kerouac

By Jack Kerouac

By Jack Kerouac

By Jack Kerouac

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Part of Penguin Orange Collection

Paperback $18.00

Oct 18, 2016 | ISBN 9780143129509

Paperback $18.00

Dec 28, 1976 | ISBN 9780140042597

Ebook $10.99

Dec 28, 1976 | ISBN 9781101127575

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    About On the Road

    Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

    Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition

    For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today.

    On the Road

    Jack Kerouac’s masterpiece of the Beat era was first published in 1957 and continues to provide a vital portrait of a generation adrift, as well as inspiration for travelers, dreamers, and artists in every generation that has followed.

    About On the Road

    The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation

    September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road

    Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac’s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.  

    About On the Road

    The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation

    September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road

    Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac’s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.  

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    About Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met… More about Jack Kerouac

    About Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met… More about Jack Kerouac

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    Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met… More about Jack Kerouac

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Oct 18, 2016 | 320 Pages | 5-1/8 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143129509

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Dec 28, 1976 | 320 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140042597

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Dec 28, 1976 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9781101127575

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    Praise

    “An authentic work of art . . . 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.”
    –Gilbert Millstein, The New York Times 

    “On the Road has the kind of drive that blasts through to a large public. . . . What makes the novel really important, what gives it that drive is a genuine new, engaging and exciting prose style. . . . What keeps the book going is the power and beauty of the writing.”
    –Kenneth Rexroth, San Francisco Chronicle

    “One of the finest novels of recent years. . . a highly euphoric and intensely readable story about a group of wandering young hedonists who cross the country in endless search of kicks.”
    –Leonard Feather, Downbeat 

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