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On the Road

by Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel of freedom and the search for originality that defined a generation

“An authentic work of art.”—The New York Times
 
Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon and imbued with Kerouac’s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope—a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.
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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: December 28, 1976

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  • ISBN: 9781101127575
  • Release date: December 28, 1976

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  • ISBN: 9781101127575
  • File size: 836 KB
  • Release date: December 28, 1976
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subjects

Classic Literature Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:740
Text Difficulty:3-4

Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel of freedom and the search for originality that defined a generation

“An authentic work of art.”—The New York Times
 
Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon and imbued with Kerouac’s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope—a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature