On the Road

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david.lancaster, January 19, 2012 (view all comments by david.lancaster)
On The Road is a completely original work and unique in 1951 when it was published. Kerouac's writing is captivating and gives you a vivid picture of the late 1940's Beat Generation. This book is in my best-of list for modern literature.

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September Song, September 3, 2011 (view all comments by September Song)
A few years ago, 50 years after its initial publication, and 35 years since I had read it for the first time myself, I loaned my battered paperback copy of On The Road to a young friend of mine who had asked me "What should I read next?". Her reaction was, as I would have hoped, overwhelmingly positive. "It made me want to go hitchhiking" she told me.
She didn't go, of course, that's considered too dangerous these days, but she caught the spirit of Kerouac from those yellowed old pages and that made me happy.
It made me remember myself from the days before I was twenty. When the world was wide-open in front of me with all my limitless imagination and inexhaustible energy to carry me forward.
Those two-and-a-half-hundred pages created in a Benzedrine-fueled typing frenzy spoke to both of us across generations as great writing is meant to do.
Jack's tales of Casady, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and the rest would continue in his books that followed but the spirit and zest of On The Road stand alone.
Bob Dylan said of it, "It changed my life like it changed everyone else's".
Myself and my young friend were lucky enough to experience it that same way.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780140185218

Introduction:

Charters, Ann

Author:

Charters, Ann

Author:

Kerouac, Jack

Publisher:

Penguin Classics

Location:

London

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

American fiction (fictional works by one author)

Subject:

Adventure

Subject:

Beat generation

Subject:

Autobiographical fiction

Subject:

Beat generation -- Fiction.

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

Classics

Copyright:

1991

Edition Number:

Updated

Series:

Penguin Twentieth Century Classics

Series Volume:

970

Publication Date:

19911001

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

352

Dimensions:

7.74x5.10x.66 in. .54 lbs.