On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and …
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On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx), and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise. The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was published by Viking Press in 1957. The New York Times hailed the book's appearance as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 3207
- Goodreads:
- 2552
- BNF ID:
- 11953706m
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Pela Estrada Fora
Paperback, 404 pages
Portuguese language
Published 1998 by Relógio D'Água Editores.
- ISBN:
- 978-972-708-390-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 9374995
On the Road
304 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 2012 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-312028-5Copied ISBN!
On the Road
307 pages
English language
Published Sept. 22, 1976 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-004259-7Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 70401
On the Road
290 pages
English language
Published Sept. 3, 1998 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-027415-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 45541
Jack Kerouac
900 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 2007
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59853-012-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 103405
On the Road
320 pages
English language
Published Aug. 16, 2007
- ISBN:
- 978-0-670-06326-0Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 417058
On the Road
307 pages
English language
Published Dec. 31, 2002 by Penguin Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-243725-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 45536
On the Road
408 pages
English language
Published Aug. 26, 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-310546-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 2636730
On the Road
330 pages
English language
Published 2005
- ISBN:
- 978-1-101-12757-5Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 7404577
On the Road
293 pages
English language
Published June 1, 1999 by Penguin Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-028329-7Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 48656150
On the Road
281 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 2000 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-118267-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 55880908
On the road
416 pages
English language
Published 2008 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-118921-5Copied ISBN!
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