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On the Road was championed within Viking Press by Malcolm Cowley and was published by Viking in 1957, based on revisions of the 1951 manuscript. Besides differences in formatting, the published novel was shorter than the original scroll manuscript and used pseudonyms for all of the major characters.
- Jack Kerouac
- 320 pages
- 1957
- September 5, 1957
Sep 5, 2017 · The first explicit reference to On the Road came in August 1948, when Kerouac referred to the novel by name in his journal: “I have another novel in mind—‘On the Road’—which I keep thinking...
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On the Road, novel by Jack Kerouac, written over the course of three weeks in 1951 and published in 1957.
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First published September 5, 1957. Book details & editions. About the author. Jack Kerouac. 375 books10.6k followers. Autobiographical novels, such as On the Road (1957) and The Dharma Bums (1958), of American writer Jack Kerouac, originally Jean-Louis Kerouac, embody the values of the Beat Generation.
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Full Title: On The Road; When Written: Late 1940s to 1951 Where Written: New York City When Published: 1957 Literary Period: The Beat Movement Genre: Novel Setting: Various locations across the United States (especially New York, Denver, San Francisco, Chicago, Virginia, New Orleans, Los Angeles), Mexico.
Dec 31, 2002 · His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became...
On the Road, published in 1957, is a novel by American author Jack Kerouac that follows the cross-country adventures of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, two young men who reject societal norms and seek meaning and self-discovery through travel. Set against the backdrop of the 1950s, the novel explores the restless pursuit of freedom and self ...
