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.

Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be Beat" and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than fifty years ago.

Reading this book, you embark on memorable cross,American adventures with an eclectic cast of characters. Captivated, in one sitting you,ll read from the first page to the last and then begin again from page one. And somewhere through the novel, you,ll have the overwhelming urge to trek across the country yourself, abandoning all the comforts and conveniences of American life and celebrating the freedom and wild nature on the road. ~ Kirsten

Jack Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The best-known of his many works, On the Road, published in 1957, was an international bestseller. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of forty-seven.