{"product_id":"on-the-road-paperback-3","title":"On the Road - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnn Charters\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e 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 compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e an inspirational work of lasting importance. Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be \"Beat\" and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than fifty years ago. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Ann Charters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e 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 Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Town and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1950, but it was \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the \"Beat generation\" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of \"one vast book,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Duluoz Legend\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn Charters\u003c\/b\u003e, a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar, is professor of American Literature emerita at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. in 1966, she worked with Kerouac to compile his bibliography, and was the only biographer who interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books. She is the author of his first biography, \u003ci\u003eKerouac\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1973. She edited his posthumous poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eScattered Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the editor of numerous books on Beat and other literature, including \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Beat Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Sixties Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeat Down to Your Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Jack Kerouac Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, and two volumes of Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eSelected Letters\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 31, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724667850815,"sku":"9780142437254","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/473e3bee0ddb01fe771193e67db4d8cf.webp?v=1765103482","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/on-the-road-paperback-3","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}