Features the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. Their friends Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed - neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested. This book presents a fictionalized account of the summer of the killing.

Follows two young 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.

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 American dream.

Chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, a sideburned hero of the snowy West.

A tale of teenage romance in New England. It features the story of Jack and Maggie who are in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation. It captures the intensity and the ordinariness of adolescent life, with its torments and complications. It also discusses about growing up in America.

The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bitter-sweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at his most evocative.

Never before published in Kerouac s lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama s life and works. Wake Up recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha s royal upbringing and his father s wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father's palace

Contemporary / American English (Available April 2008) 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 travel across the USA.

Set in 1953, this play is about tension, about friendship, and about karma - what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It portrays an authentic and alternate 1950s America.

Contains poems which reveal both the endless diversity of human life and poets particular philosophy of self-fulfillment.

Presents 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.

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer, whose sexual advances he'd grown tired of rejecting. Carr, had come to them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested.

A biography of the founder of Buddhism and a study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works. It recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. It offers an introduction to the world of Buddhism.

A coming of age story, which draws on the author's New England childhood.

Beautifully rejacketed, Doctor Sax is one of Kerouac's best books -- a vivid, nostalgic tale of one boy's extraordinary childhood.

Renowned for his Beat Generation novel On the Road , Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Written by a Kerouac scholar, this work supplements a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from various sources.