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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac
40.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer, whose sexual advances he'd seemingly grown tired of rejecting. Carr, still in bloodstained clothes, had come to each of them and confessed; Kerou ...Show more
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac & William Burroughs
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arres ...Show more
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: JK
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
Haunted Life by Jack Kerouac
45.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac
28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: JK
Moodily atmospheric, full of verve and energy, "Maggie Cassidy" is Kerouac's poignant tale of teenage romance in New England. The story of Jack and Maggie, in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation, is told with touching simplicity. It skillfully capture ...Show more
On the Road by Kerouac, Jack
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Great Kerouac Ser.
This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format.One of the most famous American books of the century. Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal Paradise's adventures "on the road" with wild friend Dean Moriarty, and their crazy companions, as they ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Essential. Penguin Ser.
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfillment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the A ...Show more
On the Road - Penguin Orange Collection by Jack Kerouac
37.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Orange Collection
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 For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Peng ...Show more
On the Road : The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
69.95 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This is the original scroll: the first ever publication of Kerouac's original draft for the book - transcribed from the famous 'scroll': hundreds of typed pages which constitute the manuscript taped together by Kerouac himself. "On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American c ...Show more
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
30.00 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Classic Books
"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