{"product_id":"on-the-road-the-original-scroll-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-9780143105466","title":"On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe legendary 1951 scroll draft of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, published as Kerouac originally composed it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e--typed as a long, single-spaced paragraph on eight sheets of tracing paper, which he taped together to form a scroll. Representing the identifiable point at which his vision and narrative voice first came together in a sustained burst of creative energy, the scroll is the \"uncut\" version of Kerouac's masterpiece--rougher, wilder, and more sexually explicit than the edited work that appeared in 1957. \u003ci\u003eOn the Road: The Original Scroll \u003c\/i\u003eis Kerouac's signature achievement--and one of the most significant, celebrated, and provocative documents in American literary history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Town and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1950, but it was \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the \"Beat generation\" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of \"one vast book,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Duluoz Legend\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591522783506,"sku":"9780143105466","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a6ff3977-1bcd-4f94-a85f-5ac760caf02f.jpg?v=1732092606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-the-road-the-original-scroll-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-9780143105466","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}