The Dharma Bums : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jack Kerouac - 2006

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Penguin Classics, 2006-10-31. paperback. New. 8x5x0.

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A deluxe edition of Kerouac's 1958 classicPublished just one year after On The Road, this is the story of two men enganged 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.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents 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.

Penguin Classics, 2006. Softcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac.

Penguin Classics. As New. 2006. Softcover. 0143039601 . Stiff wraps with flaps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pp; Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition .

Penguin Books, 2006. Very Good. Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition . New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2006. vii, 187pp. 8vo. Paperback with flaps. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped edges..