In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested. Months later, the two writers - unpublished at the time - collaborated on "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks", a fictionalized account of the summer of the killing.

本书为美国"垮掉的一代"代表人物杰克·凯鲁亚克的自传性小说。讲述了凯鲁亚克与在墨西哥城认识的墨西哥女子特丽丝苔莎之间的爱情故事。在讲述两人故事的过程中，凯鲁亚克也在不断的寻找着自我，也更加理解自己和生活。

A deluxe edition of Kerouac's 1958 classic Published 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.

Swinging to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of beat. On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalised autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers and fellow travellers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, this cross-country bohemian odyssey not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. --Acton Lane

一部伟大的成长小说，《在路上》序幕之作 这是我的全部，到达了文字所能到达的最远的地方。 ——杰克•凯鲁亚克 —————————————————————————— 凯鲁亚克第一部重要的作品，历经数年完成。对亡父的悼念，写一部美国伟大小说的决心，令他提笔描述自己的青少年时光。小说以传统手法写成，与作者以后的“自动散文”风格形成鲜明对比。 “镇”指的是加洛韦，主角彼得出生和成长的地方，在这里，他通过橄榄球证明自己。“城”代表1940年代的纽约，早期“垮掉的一代”圈子。彼得从小镇走向城市，在成长的痛苦和困惑中，发现自己人生的方向：在路上。 —————————————————————————— 凯鲁亚克初登文坛时，带来了一股新鲜的空气。他代表了一个悲剧，一种力量、胜利和持续的影响力，这种影响至今犹存。 ——诺曼•梅勒 他书写的是任由生活自由前行的小说。视野之深广，常常是他的制胜法宝。 ——《纽约时报书评》 描绘了艺术家的重生，引人入胜。 ——《洛杉矶时报》

On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.