Go
By: John Clellon Holmes
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, …
Want to Read $ 2.99"The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free."-John Clellon Holmes, Go
"The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free."-John Clellon Holmes, Go
"But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take."-John Clellon Holmes, Go
"But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take."-John Clellon Holmes, Go
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1. Go
By: John Clellon Holmes
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, … read more
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"The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free."-John Clellon Holmes, Go
"But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take."-John Clellon Holmes, Go
2. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
3. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
4. On the Road
By: Jack Kerouac
3.61
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more
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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
5. Omensetter's Luck
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luckis the quirky, impre… read more
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6. Big Sur
By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his min… read more
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7. First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue
By: Neal Cassady
4.13
Format: 277 pages,
Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infa… read more
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8. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac
4.06
Format: None pages,
On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man nam… read more
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9. The Wild Boys
By: William S. Burroughs
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
The Wild Boysis a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to … read more
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10. Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
By: Hunter S. Thompson
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomedis back in print -- by popular demand! In this third an… read more
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11. Desolation Angels
By: Jack Kerouac , Joyce Johnson
3.93
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring "one of the most true, comic, and griz… read more
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"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry"-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom...."-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Every night I still ask the Lord, "Why?" and havent heard a decent answer yet"-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, "Perché?" E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente."-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
12. The Place of Dead Roads
By: William S. Burroughs
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard … read more
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13. The Subterraneans
By: Jack Kerouac
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road,… read more
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14. Iphigenia in Aulis
By: Euripides , Nicholas Rudall
3.84
Format: 467 pages, Paperback
Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Troj… read more
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15. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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16. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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17. The Dharma Bums
By: Jack Kerouac
4.71
Format: None pages,
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more
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18. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
By: Tom Wolfe
3.57
Format: 416 pages,
For a start, Kesey's own life with the Merry Pranksters is perhaps the consummate example of a phen… read more
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19. What Maisie Knew
By: Henry James , Paul Theroux , Patricia Crick
4.07
Format: 248 pages,
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feather… read more
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20. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
By: Hunter S. Thompson
4.33
Format: 201 pages,
"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… read more
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21. The Town and the City
By: Jack Kerouac
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' - Kerouac on "The Town and the City". … read more
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