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  • The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
    Jack Kerouac
    'The Scripture of the Golden Eternity' by Jack Kerouac is a contemplative and poetic exploration of spirituality, existence, and transcendence. This work reflects Kerouac’s deep engagement with Buddhist philosophy, particularly Zen, while maintaining his signature Beat sensibility. ...
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  • Big Sur
    Jack Kerouac
    Big Sur, first published in 1962, was written by author and poet Jack Kerouac in the fall of 1961 over a ten-day period. This Penguin edition reprint recounts Kerouac’s (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief stays at a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California, owned by Kerouac’s friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The novel depicts...
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  • Big Sur
    Jack Kerouac
    Five years after On the Road, the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines with wrenching clarity his unwished for fame, escalating alcoholism, and troubling alienation from nature. In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and with friends in San Francisco—among them fellow iconoclasts Neal Cassa...
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  • Book of Dreams
    Jack Kerouac
    2019 Reprint of 1961 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  The Book of Dreams is a description of what Kerouac saw in his sleep as actual dreams, not his daydreams or waking reveries.  The dreams are strung together in loose narrative form in an effort to convey their content to the reader.  The dreams also provide ...
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  • Big Sur
    Jack Kerouac
    2019 Reprint of 1962 Edition.  Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his ever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in a powerful religious experience. Big Sur was ...
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  • Maggie Cassidy
    Jack Kerouac
    2019 Reprint of 1959 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  “Set in the close-knit working-class French-Canadian community of Lowell, Massachusetts, Maggie Cassidy is a semi-autobiographical account of Kerouac’s adolescence.  The story is recounted through the teenage mind of the author’s alter ego, Jack Duluoz, a hi...
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  • Tristessa
    Jack Kerouac
    2018 Reprint of 1960 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  Tristessa is a novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City.  It is based on his relationship with a Mexican prostitute (the title character). The woman's real name was Esperanza ("hope" in Spanish); Kerouac changed her name to Trist...
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    11,23 €

  • The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
    Jack Kerouac
    2018 Reprint of 1960 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  The Scripture of the Golden Eternity is a book of 66 prose poems written by Kerouac and first published in 1960 by Corinth Books, New York City. The book is Kerouac’s sutra on Buddhist philosophy, in which he describes a "Golden Eternity" that is paradoxical...
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  • The Haunted Life
    Jack Kerouac
    In 1944 under circumstances that remain rather mysterious an aspiring writer named Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript title "The Haunted Life," a coming-of-age story set in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.Kerouac set his fictional treatment of Peter Martin against the backdrop of the everyday. Peter is heading into his sophomore year at Boston College, and whil...
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    17,65 €

  • Maggie Cassidy (Original Manuscript)
    Jack Kerouac
    In 1959 Avon Books published Jack Kerouac’s tender look back at his high school years in Lowell, Massachusetts, Maggie Cassidy. One particular passage in the book, written in the form of a letter, contained certain thermo-nuclear profanities that weren’t widely accepted in literature, even Beat literature, of that time period. As soon as Maggie Cassidy hit the shelves it upse...
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  • Big Sur
    Jack Kerouac
    Jack Kerouac shot to literary fame in 1957 with the publication of his iconic book of the Beat Generation, On the Road. Kerouac was termed 'King of the Beats,' a mantle he was entirely uncomfortable with. Along with Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and several others forged a new literary voice and attitude - it was a movement that often...
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  • Sea Is My Brother
    Jack Kerouac
    In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American lite...
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  • Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
    Allen Ginsberg / Jack Kerouac
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  • Orpheus Emerged
    Jack Kerouac
    “Rebellion, self-destructive behavior, alcoholism—all the Kerouac hallmarks are in evidence...”—Publishers Weekly“A striking success.”—Philadelphia Inquirer“There will never be a moment like this one,” says poet and fellow Beat writer Robert Creeley, in his introduction to this literary event: the first full-length work to be published since Kerouac’s death in 1969.Discovered b...
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    11,55 €

  • Beat Generation
    Jack Kerouac
    Beat Generation is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic wo...
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    17,95 €