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Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: JK
Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journals, ...Show more
Haunted Life by Jack Kerouac
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Fiction
In 1944, twenty-two year old Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript called The Haunted Life. It turned up thirteen years later in a Columbia University dormitory, and then in 2002, at a Sotheby's auction house. Now, 70 years after Kerouac wrote it, his second novel will be published for the first ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: JK
"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 Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stew ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
On the Roadby Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"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 roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Essentials
'What's your road, man - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow'. Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search fo ...Show more
On the Road (Film tie-in) by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel "On the Road" finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles ("Motorcycle Diaries") starring Sam Riley ("Control", "Brighton Rock"), Garret Hedlund, Kristen Stewart ("Twilight ...Show more
Piers of the Homeless Night (Mini Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac; Willa Cather
$4.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books | Series: Penguin Modern
See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart . . . 'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.
The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Published in its entirety for the first time, "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's first novel. Described by Kerouac as being about 'man's simple revolt from society as it is, with the inequalities, frustration, and self-inflicted agonies', the 158-page handwritten manuscript was not published duri ...Show more
The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: JK
"His first novel is a revelation ...the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ...wonderful". ("The Times"). "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and b ...Show more
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