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An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac''s fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another. Always fixated by Neal Cassady - the Cody of the title, renamed for the book along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs - Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who would inspire much of his work.

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A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac''s The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas.Following the explosive energy of On the Road, the book that put the Beat Genration on the literary map - and Jack Kerouac on the bestseller list - comes The Dharma Bums, in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma, or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly Bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in ''yabyum'', they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow.Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957, that made Kerouac famous. Publication of his many other books followed, among them The Subterraneans, Big Sur, and The Dharma Bums. Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-seven.If you enjoyed The Dharma Bums, you might like Kerouac''s On the Road, also available in Penguin Classics.''A vivid evocation of part of our time''New York Post''A descriptive excitement unmatched since the days of Thomas Wolfe''The New York Times Book Review

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Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac''s seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen.This edition is transcribed from the original manuscript: hundreds of typed pages taped together by Kerouac to form a ''scroll'', published word for word as it was originally composed.Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac''s exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, On the Road is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement.''The most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as "beat"'' The New York Times

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In alternating chapters that reveal a nascent period in their development as two of the twentieth century''s most influential writers, Beat Generation icons William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac''s And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an electrifying true-life mystery, including afterword by James Grauerholtz in Penguin Modern Classics.This is a hardboiled crime novel, and a true story. In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice - neither had told the police. Later they wrote this fictionalised account of that summer - of a group of friends in wartime New York, moving through each other''s apartments, drinking, necking, talking and taking drugs and haphazardly drifting towards a bloody crime. Unpublished for years, And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks is a remarkable insight into the lives and literary development of two great writers. If you enjoyed And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, you might like Kerouac''s On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''The novel that kicked it all off''Independent''An insight into Kerouac before he went on the road and Burroughs before his drug use spiralled out of control, this is a major literary event''GQ

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Jack Kerouac o svém díle často hovořil jako o souvislém celku tvořícím tzv. Duluozovu legendu a právě Jack Duluoz, autorovo alter ego, stojí v tomto případě přímo v názvu knihy, takže není pochyb o tom, co, nebo lépe řečeno kdo, bude hlavním tématem. Jack Duluoz své ženě, a tím pádem i čtenáři, vypráví, čím vším si musel projít v letech 1935-46. A že toho nebylo málo: před našima očima se odvíjí dobrodružný přerod ambiciózního maloměstského fotbalisty v intelektuála omámeného New Yorkem, stojíme po jeho boku na moři za druhé světové války i ve vězení při vyšetřování vraždy. To všechno má však jediné směřování - Kerouac, totiž Duluoz, je na nejlepší cestě k tomu, aby se stal kultovním autorem Beat Generation. Citlivější čtenáři možná uslyší jeho hlas, tak naléhavé je jeho překotné vyprávění, tak živý jeho jazyk. Možná se Duluoz občas chvástá, možná občas fňuká, ale nikdy, nikdy není nudný.

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Autobiografický román Big Sur z roku 1962 patří k tomu nejlepšímu, co Jack Kerouac napsal. Existenciální a tvůrčí krize, kterou prochází jeho románové alter ego Jack Duluoz, se promítá do rytmu prózy, jejíž účinky jsou místy až hypnotické. Jack, vyčerpaný věčným flámováním a dotěrnou pozorností fanoušků i novinářů, prchá přes celé Státy až k pobřeží Tichého oceánu, do chaty skryté na dně Ratonského kaňonu u Big Sur. Sám uprostřed divoké přírody chce najít ztracenou rovnováhu a soustředění na práci. Bukolické rozjímání však brzy vystřídá transcendentní děs... Big Sur je kniha o krajnosti, o zběsilé touze po životě, o děsuplné kráse světa, ale i o bolestném střetu s prázdnotou a příliš blízké hranici, za níž číhá zoufalství a šílenství. V tomto ohledu Kerouac bravurně a osobitě navazuje na ta největší témata básnického romantismu. A v závěrečné poemě "Moře" lze zaslechnout ozvuky tradice, k níž se hlásí Eliotova "Pustá země".

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A brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist thinkingFrom a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with its vision of the material world as empty and illusory, he was free to do what he wanted.This collection shows Jack at his earnest, soulful best. The writing is consistently and wonderfully Kerouacian: it is honest, reflective, heartfelt, and revealing, with great characterizations amid his self-exploration as he wrestles with his consciousness, desperate for belief.

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Román Na ceste spôsobil v Amerike konca päťdesiatych rokov kultúrny výbuch a Jack Kerouac sa stal ikonou novej, spontánnej a odtabuizovanej literatúry. Legendárna biblia bítnickej generácie je dnes jednou z najlepších kníh minulého storočia. Je generačnou výpoveďou a reakciou na spoločenský paradox svojej doby: Amerika bola síce na vrchole hospodárskej stability, no jej choroby boli čoraz vidite?nejšie. Kniha vychádza pri príležitosti 100. výročia narodenia Jacka Kerouaca. Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969) je jedným z najvýznamnejších predstavite?ov beat generation a autorom troch zbierok poézie a vyše pätnástich, často autobiografických, románov. V sedemnástich si zbalil kufre a presťahoval sa do New Yorku. Ohromujúce ve?komesto bolo explóziou nepoznaného. Kerouacovi do života vniesol celoživotnú lásku k jazzu a rozhodnutie venovať sa písaniu, no aj experimentovanie s drogami. Oddal sa tam priate?stvu s Allanom Ginsbergom a Williamom Burroughsom a vzniklo nové literárne hnutie: beat generation. V Kerouacovom diele nájdeme silné ovplyvnenie katolíckou vierou, budhistickými meditáciami i jazzovými improvizáciami. Napriek jeho túžbe po otvorenosti a necenzurovanej spontánnosti zažíval obdobia ťažkých depresií a osamelosti. Na následky alkoholom podlomeného zdravia zomrel vo veku štyridsaťsedem rokov.

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In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to ''get away to solitude again or die'', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jack Duluoz wrestles with doubt, alcohol dependency and his urge towards self-destruction, is one of Kerouac''s most personal and searingly honest works. Ending with the poem ''Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur'', it shows a man coming down from his hedonistic youth and trying to come to terms with fame, the world and himself.

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''Kerouac''s grittiest novel ... sensual and uninhibited'' The New York Times Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, ''King of the Beats'', needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to ''get away to solitude again or die''. Amidst the wild beauty of the Californian landscape, Kerouac struggles to come to terms with his own myth and its malign impact upon his life. The result is a moving account of a man struggling with inner demons: blessed by great talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction - a path lined with double bourbons, Manhattans and scotch ...

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Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, ''my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover''. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachussetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of his childhood: playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to church, witnessing life and death on the street corners. Written when he was staying with William Burroughs in Mexico in 1952, Doctor Sax was Kerouac''s favourite of all his books: a dark, vivid and magical evocation of a boy''s vibrant inner life.

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Útlou prózu Podzemníci prý Jack Kerouac napsal v benzedrinovém rauši za tři dny a noci. Ať už je to pravda, nebo ne, je nepochybné, že kniha dokonale naplňuje autorovu představu "spontánního psaní", stylu, který Kerouac dle vlastních slov "sám objevil pro narativní umění; autor v něm klopýtá přes sebe sama, aby odvyprávěl svůj příběh, úplně bez dechu, jako když hospodský vypravěč vrazí do nacpaného lokálu a převypráví, co se zrovna stalo, a jakmile vyprávění dokončí, už nemá právo se k němu vrátit a smazat, co jeho ruka napsala." Stejně nepochybné je i to, že tato prostá, smutná, k nezdaru odsouzená love story vypravěče a černé krásky Mardou zasazená do San Franciska na počátku padesátých let 20. století patří k vrcholům autorova díla - mnozí literární kritici a historici ji dokonce označují za vůbec nejlepší Kerouacův text.

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Ačkoli se Jack Kerouac proslavil především jako prozaik, psal také vynikající poezii – mnozí literární historici jsou dokonce toho názoru, že Kerouacovy básně jeho prózu co do kvality předčí. Tak či onak, je nepochybné, že jedním z vrcholů autorova básnického díla jsou jeho haiku. Kerouacův zájem o tuto japonskou básnickou formu byl hluboký a dlouhodobý; od poloviny padesátých let až do své smrti v roce 1969 si úderná trojverší zapisoval do deníků, prokládal jimi své dopisy, romány či eseje atd. Postupně přitom dospěl k vlastní podobě, tzv. „západnímu haiku“, které se nenechává omezovat přísnými formálními pravidly, ušitými na míru japonštině, přesto si z dané formy uchovává to podstatné: schopnost zachytit ve třech krátkých verších jedinečný obraz světa, „zbavený vší poetické veteše a fíglů, a přesto vzdušný a ladný jako Vivaldiho pastorála“. Kerouacova Kniha haiku, poprvé vydaná teprve po autorově smrti, přesvědčivě dokládá, že ve svém úsilí o zvládnutí zdánlivě snadné, ve skutečnosti však nesmírně obtížné formy Kerouac uspěl beze zbytku.

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První a nejdojemnější kapitola fiktivního Kerouacova životopisu, "Duluozovy legendy", kterou psal v podstatě celý život, protože látkou i palivem jeho psaní vždy byly vlastní, intenzivně prožívané zkušenosti. Vize Gerarda jsou tím, co si Jack Kerouac - či jeho prozaické alter ego Duluoz - pamatuje o svém bratrovi Gerardovi; je to sled výjevů, vizí či vidění, detailů přetvořených v básnickou pravdu, střípků viděných očima dítěte, matných vzpomínek na milovanou, důvěrně blízkou, andělskou bytost, kterou odvedla z jeho života smrtelná choroba, když bylo Gerardovi devět let a Jackovi pouhé čtyři roky. Knihu napsal Kerouac během dvou týdnů v roce 1956, ve stejném roce, kdy rozepsal Anděly zoufalství a dokončil Tristessu, a jako by v ní utíkal ke vzpomínkám na dětskou čistotu a nevinnost, na šťastná léta prožitá po boku milujícího a milovaného bratra, kterého vidí jako svého prvního učitele.

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Je silvestr roku 1938, v Lowellu v Massachusetts chumelí a parta šestnáctiletých kluků vesele a trochu nejistě kráčí na taneční zábavu. Pro jednoho z nich bude tenhle večer osudový: Jack Duluoz, autorovo alter ego, totiž v tančírně potká sedmnáctiletou Maggie Cassidyovou. Touhle scénou začíná útlý román, který Jack Kerouac napsal v roce 1953 a líčí v něm historii první lásky na maloměstě a hrdinův první šok a okouzlení z oslnivého New Yorku. Prostý příběh prvního vzplanutí je psán typickým Kerouakovým překotným stylem s chaotickou interpunkcí a "jazzovou" větnou stavbou, balancujícím na pomezí prózy a poezie. Autobiografický text o nesmělém, nezkušeném vzájemném poznávání a různících se snech dvou mladičkých lidí vznikl už v roce 1953, ale nakladatele našel teprve o šest let později, když už se jeho autor vezl na vlně slávy po vydání svého nejslavnějšího opusu Na cestě.

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''A remarkable ear for the cadences of a phrase or sentence, a sense of how to register in words the sheer, sweet flow of things'' Guardian This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac''s own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs, contains some of Kerouac''s most lyrical descriptions. From his reports of the strangers he meets and the all-night conversations he enjoys in seedy bars in Paris and Brittany, to the moment in a cab he experiences Buddhism''s satori - a feeling of sudden awakening - Kerouac''s affecting and revolutionary writing transports the reader.Published at the height of his fame, Satori in Paris is a hectic tale of philosophy, identity and the powerful strangeness of travel.

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''She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"''Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar to the Virgin Mary. Based on Jack Kerouac''s own real-life love affair in Mexico city, this is the story of a man''s ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control. ''A narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums'' Allen Ginsberg

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''I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday''Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac''s most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked ''choruses'', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic. ''A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature'' Allen Ginsberg''A jazz poet. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerard Manley Hopkins or Dylan Thomas'' The New York Herald Tribune

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'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob Dylan Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement.

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Jako většina děl Jacka Kerouaca je i útlá próza Tristessa založena na autorových zážitcích a spoluutváří onu "velkou knihu autorova života", vedle tak slavných románů jako Na cestě, Dharmoví tuláci, Andělé zoufalství či Vize Codyho. Předobrazem hlavní hrdinky knihy, indiánské dívky Tristessy, byla prostitutka a narkomanka Esperanza, s níž se Kerouac seznámil v půli padesátých let 20. století při jednom ze svých pobytů v Mexico City a s níž navázal bolestný, k neúspěchu odsouzený vztah. Kerouac líčí klíčové okamžiky jejich setkávání a míjení v intenzivních obrazech na pomezí snu a skutečnosti; k přízračné atmosféře přispívá i to, že se události zaznamenané v knize se povětšinou odehrávají v noci. S tím kontrastuje fakt, že důležitou roli v textu hraje Kerouacovo studium buddhismu a usilování o osvícení - probuzení… Ale zatímco první část knihy připomíná sen, ze kterého je možné se probudit, ve druhé části se snová atmosféra prohloubí až k noční můře spolu s tím, jak s vypravěčem sledujeme úpadek jeho hrdinky i nevyhnutelný konec jejich vztahu.

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''It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go'' Kerouac on THE TOWN AND THE CITY Kerouac''s debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics. Inspired by grief over his father''s death and gripped by determination to write the Great American Novel, he draws largely on his own New England childhood.

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'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...' Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Tento v češtině dosud nevydaný román je založen na autorových vzpomínkách na rodný Lowell. Zároveň se z kontextu jeho díla poněkud vymyká, protože Kerouac zde opouští svou oblíbenou a obvyklou kronikářskou polohu a vytváří tajemnou, fabulovanou prózu, v níž se vzpomínky prolínají se sny. Doktor Sax bývá označován za nejlepší Kerouacovu knihu.

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Kerouac si po dlouhou dobu zaznamenával po probuzení své sny, vždy co nejrychleji, ve snaze vyloučit rozumovou korekturu snové látky. Soubor záznamů snů přináší tento pozoruhodný titul. Autorovy životní zážitky se tu předvádí z nového úhlu a postavy, které známe z Kerouacových románů, se nám přibližují skrze snovou optiku.

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Kerouac's last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one innocent, adventurous boy. 'Pic', or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-year-old boy from North Carolina. When his grandfather dies and he is sent to live with another relative, his older brother, Slim, comes to rescue him. Together they hitch to New York City and, eventually, all the way to California, encountering hardship, kindness, music, love and danger as they go.

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Kniha snů zaujímá v celku Kerouacova díla zvláštní postavení: setkáváme se v ní sice s autorem samotným i s postavami, které známe z jeho ostatních próz, vše je však nahlíženo prismatem snu; tento experimentální román totiž sestává ze zápisů snů, jež Kerouac pořídil v letech 1952-1960. Kerouacovo "spontánní psaní" je tu snad ještě spontánnější než obvykle, jelikož se osvobozuje od každodenní reality a nechává se omezovat pouze autorovým nevědomím, respektive tím, co je z něj autor schopen a ochoten zveřejnit. Onen surový básnický materiál ovšem zpracovává suverénní stylista, a výsledný text tak nabývá prazvláštní, univerzální působivosti. Řečeno se samotným Kerouacem: "Každonoční snění všech lidí na světě spojuje lidstvo (…) a je také důkazem, že svět je skutečně transcendentální."

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Dosud nevydaný text z pozůstalosti Jacka Kerouaca, jeho první rozsáhlejší dílo. Kerouac ho napsal na základě svých zkušeností ze služby u obchodního námořnictva. Vydavatelé jeho text doplnili řadou dalších materiálů - tematicky a časově souvisejícími prozaickými fragmenty a také dobovou korespondencí s přítelem Sebastianem Sampasem, básníkem, která obsahuje Kerouacovy komentáře k vlastnímu psaní a řadu dalších prozaických i básnických pokusů.

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LP vinyl - Visions of the Emerald Beyond je album jazzové skupiny Mahavishnu Orchestra. Visions of the Emerald Beyond je album jazzové skupiny Mahavishnu Orchestra. Rok vydání : 1974 Rok reedice : 2019 Seznam stop LP Eternity #039;s Breath Part 1 / Eternity #039;s Breath Part 2 / Lila #039;s Dance / Can #039;t Stand Your Funk / Pastoral / Faith / Cosmic Strut / If I Could See / Be Happy / Earth Ship / Pegasus / Opus 1 / On The Way Home To Earth

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Outsider Classics is Dead Ink''s resurrection ground for the strange, the silenced, and the outcast. This series exhumes lost literary voices that were ahead of their time to restore them to the cult status they always deserved. From forgotten masterpieces to once-censored provocations, each title is a reaction against the canon curated for readers who want to stray into the margins and away from the mainstream. ''Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue.'' Fifteen-year-old Jan is pregnant, gamely living off rice and whatever fish her boyfriend John can catch in Yelapa, Mexico. She and John, who introduced her to Beckett, Kafka, Joyce, and Dostoevsky, are writing a novel together. Before she can leave for Guadalajara where she plans to deliver her baby, she goes into labor three months early, and the baby is stillborn. She turns sixteen soon after and decides to head north. Jan Kerouac, the only child of Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac, published her autobiographical novel Baby Driver in 1981. Unacknowledged by her father, she is haunted by the absence of his love. With a graceful, sometimes disturbing detachment and intense lyricism, she explores the freewheeling soul of a woman on her own road. From an adolescence on the Lower East Side of Manhattan dropping LSD and doing time in detention homes, to the peace movement in Haight-Ashbury and Washington state, to traveling by bus through Central America with a madman for a lover, Jan lives by her wits and whims, rhapsodic and irrepressible.

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New monograph on the ever popular Paula Rego, the pioneering and much loved artist who died in 2022 at the age of 87. This jewel of a book is the first to focus in detail on a range of Rego's literary sources, illuminating this key part of her practice. Paula Rego’s radical art drew inspiration from a vast range of sources – from traditional folklore and fairy tales, to literary classics and nursery rhymes. For Rego, these sources conveyed essential truths about the world, and throughout her life she turned to stories written in the English language. Rego connected with these literary sources in very personal ways, using them to articulate the conditions of her own life as well as work through her own dreams, anxieties, desires, and fears. Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature will present three of the artist’s most ambitious series of graphic works - Jane Eyre, Nursery Rhymes and Peter Pan - in full colour, introduced in new essays by Marco Livingstone and Rosanna McLaughlin. These, alongside various ephemera - unseen preparatory sketches, etching plates and even Rego’s very own childhood copy of Peter Pan - offer audiences an intimate portrayal of the artist’s lifelong fascination with literature and an insight into how the artist transformed this material into startlingly original, rebellious and unexpected images.

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VISIONS OF FLESH AND BLOOD: a Blood and Ash/Flesh and Fire Compendium is a comprehensive companion guide for background, history, reader-favorite information, art, and reference materials. Combined with original short stories and scenes from some of the world's most beloved characters, as well as never-before-seen visual enticements, it's a treat for the senses.Told from the point of view of Miss Willa herself, the compendium acts like research material but reads like a journal and cache of personal notes, allowing the reader to revisit the characters and history they so love yet view things in a different way.

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The delightful new novel by Jack Sheffield - out now!Change is in the air for Jack Sheffield and the Ragley village school.It''s 1987, and after a decade as head teacher at Ragley-on-the-Forest School, Jack Sheffield is looking to the future. He and his wife are expecting a new baby, the school is preparing for the introduction of the new National Curriculum, and the coming year promises a whole host of other surprises. Whether it''s combing the church for an escaped pet mouse or dealing with the obnoxious new school governor, life in the village is always entertaining.So when Jack is offered an opportunity that could change everything, he knows he has a difficult decision to make. Endings are never easy, but perhaps the thrill of a new beginning is exactly what Jack needs...Hilarious, nostalgic and heart-warming in equal measure, Last Day of School is the final novel in the much-loved Teacher series.''Reliably entertaining'' Choice ''Jack Sheffield is certainly top of the class with this heart-warming and feel-good series.'' David Hill, Western Morning News_____________________Readers love the Teacher series!''I cannot recommend this series highly enough''''I shall miss all the characters I''ve got to know over the years''''Beautifully written and a real pleasure to read''''The children never fail to impress and amuse, and the snippets of news from the time bring back memories''Praise for Jack Sheffield:''Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure.'' Alan Titchmarsh''Overflowing with amusing anecdotes.'' Daily Express''Amusing adventures at the North Yorkshire village school.'' Choice''Jack Sheffield''s in a class of his own.'' York Press

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Prastará poučka, podle níž každý spisovatel píše celý život jedinou knihu, platí dvojnásob u Jacka Kerouaca. Snad nejlépe tuto "jednu Kerouacovu knihu" představují Vize Codyho; tvoří přitom pandán autorova nejslavnějšího románu Na cestě, jelikož zčásti pokrývají totéž časové období. Oním Codym je týž Neal Cassady, který Kerouacovi posloužil jako předobraz Deana Moriartyho v románu Na cestě, Kerouacův obdivovaný přítel, múza, "tajný hrdina" Ginsbergova Kvílení, neřízená střela řítící se životem "v myriádě ukradených nočních auťáků" za stále dalšími rozkošemi. Ve Vizích Codyho ovšem autor vypráví mnohé, na co si ve svém nejslavnějším románu netroufl; odhazuje v nich veškeré jazykové, stylistické i obsahové zábrany a nabízí čtenářům text, který lze postavit na roveň odvážným experimentům Jamese Joyce. Vize Codyho jsou zcela ojedinělou směsicí divokých historek ze života beat generation, autorova proudu vědomí, precizních i procítěných popisů, úvah, meandrujících asociací, přepisů magnetofonových nahrávek rozhovorů titulního hrdiny s autorem, dopisů, básní - a to vše na úctyhodných šesti stech stranách. Kniha vychází v kongeniálním českém překladu Josefa Rauvolfa, který v roce 2011 získal prestižní Cenu Josefa Jungmanna.

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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.

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Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: ‘a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums’.

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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.

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Acclaimed Japanese creators reveal their incredible Visions of the Star Wars galaxy in the stunning oversized pages of a Treasury Edition! Manga legend Takashi Okazaki continues his storytelling from the acclaimed Star Wars: Visions'' ''The Duel,'' featuring the Ronin - fusing the mythology of Star Wars with elements of Feudal Japan! We know the Ronin as a fearsome Sith slayer, but who was he before? Discover the early days of the fan-favourite character! Then, acclaimed creator Peach Momoko unleashes her own visionary storytelling! Centuries after the death of a great Sith Lord, a cult has grown worshipping them... and the dark side. Ankok believes she is the successor to this deadly legacy! But is she truly in tune with the Force? Or is she just exploiting the people in her village? Kako and Gel are about to come face-to-face with the truth - even if it kills them! Collecting: Star Wars: Visions (2022) 1, Star Wars: Visions - Peach Momoko (2023) 1, Star Wars: Visions - Takeshi Okazaki (2024) 1, Star Wars: Darth Vader - Black, White & Red (2023) 1 (Peach Momoko story)

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Not only does God still speak to us apart from the Scriptures—we should expect Him to.This is the story of how Jack Deere learned to hear the voice of God in his life and how you can too.Now a modern classic, Jack wrote Surprised by the Voice of God over twenty-five years ago. Based on that first book, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God has been entirely rewritten and includes additional thoughts and insights from a lifetime of hearing God speak.Deere will guide you through the Bible to discover the variety of creative, deeply personal ways God still communicates with us today. You''ll learn: How God speaks with people apart from the Bible, though never in contradiction to it.The ways God revealed his thoughts to the men and women of the Bible.Why God continues to speak to us today using the same methods.Deere provides counsel and guidance for knowing how to accurately hear God speak through prophecies, dreams, visions, and other forms of divine communication. With candor, sensitivity, and a profound understanding of Scripture, Deere identifies our hindrances to hearing the voice of God and calls us to a more intimate relationship with God.Filled with fascinating stories and intimate personal accounts, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God is for all who want to walk in friendship with God

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The vampire is one of the great enemies of humanity, a nightmarish figure who feeds on the living in order to sustain themselves. Born from ancient folklore, writers in the 19th century gave form to the vampire as we know it today. Still haunting our subconscious in the 20th century, a new wave of writers continued to develop the imagery and traditions of the vampire—and the vampire continued to evolve. From John Polidori’s iconic short story "The Vampyre" and tales of parasitic female companions to experimental and freshly thrilling takes by Robert Bloch, Angela Carter, and Anne Rice, this new collection sets out to present the enrapturing range of the vampire story and our undying fascination with the monster at its heart.

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Destined to be together, forbidden to love, two lost souls fight evil in an everyday world that belongs to the night. A dark romantasy by a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.Aria Rialta is a girl of two realities. One she was born to. The other she was chosen for. Both are a threat.Every night when Aria falls asleep, she enters the nightmare world of Faydor to fight a war. It’s her calling to help destroy the Kruen, who feed sin and chaos to our everyday world of vulnerable humans. It would be a lonely realm in which to do battle if not for Pax, Aria’s dangerously irresistible soulmate whose mere touch can kill. It’s also a realm that’s getting harder to escape.Aria’s hallucinations are seeping into her waking world. And the Kruen are coming for her. To help Aria, Pax must do what no one in Faydor has dared to do before—join his soulmate in the light of day. Giving in to their forbidden attraction could be the death of them, but they might not be able to stop themselves as they embark on a cross-country journey to fight the evils hunting them.As their desire grows, so do Aria’s untapped powers, and a menacing new force far darker than the Kruen.

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Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differently each conceived of inequality, and how the subject, prominent in their times, was eclipsed during the Cold War and has become central once again.

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Al Ries and Jack Trout, two of the world''s most successful marketing strategists, call upon over 40 years of marketing experise to identify the definitive rules that govern the world of marketing. Combining a wide-ranging historical overview with a keen eye for the future, the authors bring to light 22 superlative tools and innovative techniques for the international marketplace. The authors examine marketing campaigns that have succeeded and others that have failed, why good ideas didn''t live up to expectations, and offer their own ideas on what would have worked better. The real-life examples, commonsense suggestions and killer instincts contained are nothing less than rules by which companies will flourish or fail.

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Kniha - 368 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years? AI will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, but many people know little about it apart from visions of dystopian robots or flying cars. Though the term has been around for half a century, it is only now, Kai-Fu Lee argues, that AI is poised to upend our society, just as the arrival of technologies like electricity and smart phones did before it. In the past five years, AI has shown it can learn games like chess in mere hours-and beat humans every time. AI has surpassed humans in speech and object recognition, even outperforming radiologists in diagnosing lung cancer. AI is at a tipping point. What comes next? Within two decades, aspects of...

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A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today

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Super-spy Paul Chavasse – British Intelligence's most maverick agent – is embroiled in an deadly double-cross, in this new revised edition of Jack Higgins' classic spy thriller.

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Find the comfort you need when your life feels like it is falling apart.Where do you turn to when you need hope, encouragement, and comfort during your most difficult times? God''s Word is the best place to start.When you are faced with grief, pain, or loss it''s often hard to find comfort and support. God''s Promises® During Times of Trouble provides 50 topics of select biblical promises of comfort and hope during the difficulties that leave us needing healing and reassurance. Whether you''re struggling with illness, loss, divorce, confusion, doubt, or any difficult situation that leaves you with a feeling of despair, the promises found in God''s Word bring abundant encouragement, inspiration, and hope.A volume in the popular God''s Promises® line of resources, this keepsake expanded edition features:Fifty topics covering a wide variety of issues affecting today''s Christian such as loneliness, isolation, stress, anger, doubt, financial difficulties, marital problems, and many more.Hundreds of Bible verses (NKJV translation) specially collected to speak directly to you.Inspirational quotes from respected Christian authors.Key verses perfect for memorization and reflection.Reflection questions and journaling lines for applying biblical principles to your everyday challenges. Scripture is one of the most powerful tools for finding inspiration to uplift and nourish your heart and soul through life''s most challenging times. And God''s Promises® During Times of Trouble will help you lean on God''s Word and find the hope you crave.

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Use this key to unlock THE SECRET and live the life of your dreams...Following on from the hugely successful THE SECRET, this book is a simple ''how to'' guide for using the Law of Attraction to create the life you desire. THE KEY explains not only what you need to know but what you need to do in order to attract what you want in your life. It addresses important issues of clarity, purpose and action. This thought-provoking guide will take you step-by-step through the processes of defining your dreams, goals and desires. And along the way you will gain a greater understanding of yourself - a sense of who you really are and why you are here. Your journey begins right here, right now. You can change your life, increase your awareness and empower yourself to create an amazing future - one that is filled with love, joy and abundance.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA book like no other – the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history’s most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I.For over a hundred years, ‘the mystery of Jack the Ripper’ has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists, and endless volumes purporting finally to reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorised Victorian England.But what if there was never really any ‘mystery’ at all? What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to look, while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting to bring him to justice?In THEY ALL LOVE JACK, the award-winning film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of history’s most notorious serial killers to remain at large. More than twelve years in the writing, this is much more than a radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend, and an enthralling hunt for the killer. A literary high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, it is an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian society, a phantasmagoria of highly placed villains, hypocrites and institutionalised corruption.Polemic, forensic investigation, panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinson’s inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, THEY ALL LOVE JACK is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts – the so-called ‘Ripperologists’ – to make clear, at last, who really did it; and more importantly, how he managed to get away with it for so long.

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''One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century'' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story of codebreaking, personal sacrifice and a life lived in the shadows. The history of British codebreaking is often considered a men-only preserve, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of codebreakers were women. And foremost among them was one who is largely unknown to the public: Emily Anderson. A leading member of British intelligence, Anderson played a pivotal role in both world wars. Amongst the first codebreakers to move to Bletchley Park, she later transferred to Cairo where her exceptional skills in decoding diplomatic and military intelligence were instrumental in the first Allied victory of the Second World War, for which she was awarded the OBE. Remarkable in many ways, she was also the first female Junior Assistant in the civil service and led the fight for equal pay for women at GCHQ. Revealing newly discovered material and sources, Queen of Codes is a fascinating narrative that will rightly seal Emily Anderson''s place at the forefront of Britain''s eminent codebreakers.

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Republished to coincide with the new ITV film, My Boy Jack? starring Daniel Radcliffe, this is the full account of the tragic life of John 'Jack" Kipling. On 27th September 1915 John Kipling, the only son of Britain's best loved poet, disappeared during the Battle of Loos. The body lay undiscovered for 77 years. Then, in a most unusual move, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)re-marked the grave of an unknown Lieutenant of the Irish Guards, as that of John Kipling. There is considerable evidence that John's grave has been wrongly identified and for the first time in this book, the authors name the soldier they believe is buried in 'John's grave'. This is the first biography of John's short life, analysing the devastating effect it had on his famous father's work.

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