Jack Kerouac was an American novelist poet and leader of the Beat movement His iconic masterpiece On the Road exacted a broad cultural influence capturing the spirit of its time as no other work of the 20th century had done since The Great Gatsby Kerouac s insistence upon First thought best thought and his refusal to revise was controversial He deemed revision as a form of literary lying imposing a form farther away from the truth of the moment His novels reveal a quest for pure unadulterated language the truth of the heart unobstructed by the lying of revision His technique demonstrates an unusual writing style neither haphazard nor sloppy but systematic in the most individualised sense For the first time in publishing history this eBook presents Kerouac s complete fictional works with numerous illustrations rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time informative introductions and bonus material