Ann Charters Boeken

Third Edition in The Story and Its Writer series.

Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild, Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; and the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder.The Portable Beat Reader collects the most significant writing of these and fellow members (and spiritual descendants) of the Beat Generation, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Bob Dylan, Leroi Jones, and Michael McClure. In poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force.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.

This alphabetically arranged anthology presents 40 major authors in depth through 93 stories and 43 commentaries on the stories by the writers themselves.

An anthology of essays, poetry, and fiction from the 1960s.

Product Details 1666 pages Bedford/St Martins; 4th edition (January 1995) Ann Charters has an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom and knows that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. For those who want a smaller, less expensive anthology, the compact edition of The Story and Its Writer is the most comprehensive, diverse — the best-selling — introduction to fiction available, notable for its student appeal as well as its quality and range. To complement the stories, Charters includes her lasting an array of the writers’ own commentaries on the craft and traditions of fiction. For in-depth, illustrated studies of particular writers, her Casebooks provide unparalleled opportunities for discussion and writing.

Five decades after its initial publication, Jack Kerouac's iconic Beat novel makes its way to the big screen, directed by Walter Salles and featuring a talented cast including Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, and Viggo Mortensen. The story follows Sal Paradise, a young innocent who embarks on an exhilarating journey across the United States with his hero, the mystical Dean Moriarty. Their quest for fulfillment through drink, sex, drugs, and jazz transforms into a deeper exploration of personal freedom and the limits of the American dream. This brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography captures the essence of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with exuberance and poignancy. As one of the most influential novels of the 20th century, it launched the Beat Generation and remains a cornerstone of that literary movement. Kerouac, an American novelist and poet, gained fame with this work, which followed his earlier novel, The Town and the City. His legacy includes other notable works like The Subterraneans and Big Sur. Critics have hailed it as a beautifully executed and significant expression of its generation, profoundly impacting readers and inspiring countless individuals to seek new experiences.