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

by Jack Kerouac

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143105469
• ISBN13: 9780143105466
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher