On the Road: The Original Scroll

<b>The legendary 1951 scroll draft of <i>On the Road</i> published as Kerouac originally composed it</b> <p/><b>The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of <i>On the Road</i>] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/>During three weeks in 1951 Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of <i>On the Road</i>--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. <i>On the Road: The Original Scroll </i>is Kerouac's signature achievement--and one of the most significant celebrated and provocative documents in American literary history. <p/>Penguin 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.