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On the Road: (Penguin Orange Collection)

English

By (author): Jack Kerouac

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition


For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguins iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today.

On the Road

Jack Kerouacs masterpiece of the Beat era was first published in 1957 and continues to provide a vital portrait of a generation adrift, as well as inspiration for travelers, dreamers, and artists in every generation that has followed. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 329g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780143129509

About Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell Massachusetts in 1922 the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City where he first met Neal Cassady Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. His first novel The Town and the City appeared in 1950 but it was On the Road published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady that epitomized to the world what became known as the Beat generation and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed among them The Dharma Bums The Subterraneans and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of one vast book The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg Florida in 1969 at the age of forty-seven.

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