On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream.-
Of Mice and Men
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The Great Gatsby
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A Month in the Country
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Giovanni's Room
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East of Eden
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
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In Cold Blood
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Animal Farm
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Alone in Berlin
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Man in the High Castle
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Lolita
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Brideshead Revisited
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The Haunting of Hill House
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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A Clockwork Orange
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Orientalism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Crucible
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Ways of Seeing
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Tokyo Express
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Death of a Salesman
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The Wretched of the Earth
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The Lonely Londoners
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Things Fall Apart
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Dubliners
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Night Manager
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Mrs Dalloway
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Caliban and the Witch
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Homage to Catalonia
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Ulysses
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The Go-between
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780141182674 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141182679 |
| Title | On the Road |
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-02-24 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003, Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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