On the Road: the Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac

On the Road: the Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of>On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it

The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version of>On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.--The New York Times Book Review

During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of>On the Road--typed as a long, single-spaced paragraph on eight sheets of tracing paper, which he taped together to form a scroll. Representing the identifiable point at which his vision and narrative voice first came together in a sustained burst of creative energy, the scroll is the uncut version of Kerouac's masterpiece--rougher, wilder, and more sexually explicit than the edited work that appeared in 1957. On the Road: The Original Scroll>is Kerouac's signature achievement--and one of the most significant, celebrated, and provocative documents in American literary history.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing 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.

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of>On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it

The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version of>On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.--The New York Times Book Review

During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of>On the Road--typed as a long, single-spaced paragraph on eight sheets of tracing paper, which he taped together to form a scroll. Representing the identifiable point at which his vision and narrative voice first came together in a sustained burst of creative energy, the scroll is the uncut version of Kerouac's masterpiece--rougher, wilder, and more sexually explicit than the edited work that appeared in 1957. On the Road: The Original Scroll>is Kerouac's signature achievement--and one of the most significant, celebrated, and provocative documents in American literary history.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing 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.

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Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has won thirteen prestigious Audie Awards and was Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London.

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ISBN 13	9780143105466
ISBN 10	0143105469
Title	On the Road: the Original Scroll
Author	Jack Kerouac
Series	Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2008-08-26
Number of pages	416
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