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On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Kerouac, Jack
Cunnell, Howard
Vlagopoulos, Penny

Paperback

Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0143105469
ISBN13: 9780143105466
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Aug 26 2008
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.65 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it

The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.--The New York Times Book Review

During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road--typed as a long, single-spaced paragraph on eight sheets of tracing paper, which he taped together to form a scroll. Representing the identifiable point at which his vision and narrative voice first came together in a sustained burst of creative energy, the scroll is the uncut version of Kerouac's masterpiece--rougher, wilder, and more sexually explicit than the edited work that appeared in 1957. On the Road: The Original Scroll is Kerouac's signature achievement--and one of the most significant, celebrated, and provocative documents in American literary history.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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