On the Road: The Original Scroll

Download or read book On the Road: The Original Scroll written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it. 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 compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance.