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'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'
Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic p
Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature
A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery t
„Podziemni” to napisana w trzy dni i trzy noce kultowa już dziś powieść wpisująca się w nurt literatury bitnikowskiej, której fabuła oparta jest na krótkotrwałym romansie autora z czarnoskórą pięknoś
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and L
'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"'
Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and
On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of
All of Peter Rabbit`s friends play between the soft, brightly coloured pages of this cloth book. There`s a rattle incorporated into the book to keep baby`s attention. Inspired by Beatrix Potter`s exq
Based on Jack Kerouac's memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, it is unique among his novels for its dreamlike evocation of the sensations of childhood - its wisdom, anguis
Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessi
An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays.
This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs, contains some of Kerouac's most
Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of g
Moodily atmospheric, full of verve and energy, Maggie Cassidy is Kerouac's poignant tale of teenage romance in New England. The story of Jack and Maggie, in love with the idea of being in love, looki
Kerouac's last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one innocent, adventurous boy.
'Pic', or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-yea
It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on THE TOWN AND THE CITY Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his lat
The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Jus
The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian,
Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or f
On the Road 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
The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town.
Przymiotnik "kultowy" bywa często nadużywany w odniesieniu do dzieł filmowych czy literackich, ale w przypadku książki Kerouaca trudno o lepsze określenie. Nieczęsto się zdarza, żeby jedna książka zd
Powieść napisana przez guru beatników - Jacka Kerouaca. Podczas jednego z licznych spotkań poetyckich Ray Smith i Japhy Ryder, młodzi buntownicy wywodzący się z artystycznej bohemy San Francisco, w
Artystyczna bohema San Francisco. Ray Smith i Japhy Ryder, młodzi buntownicy, przeżywają fascynację buddyzmem. Podczas jednego z wibrujących jazzem wieczorów poetyckich rodzi się pomysł wyprawy w gór
Przymiotnik „kultowy" bywa często nadużywany w odniesieniu do dzieł filmowych czy literackich, ale w przypadku książki Kerouaca trudno o lepsze określenie. Nieczęsto się zdarza, żeby jedna książka zd
Kerouaca i Ginsberga — ikony kultury, najsłynniejszych przedstawicieli „beat generation” — łączyła wrażliwość artystyczna i głęboka przyjaźń. Dzięki ogromnemu zbiorowi korespondencji przyjaźń ta ukaz