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REDISCOVER GREAT FICTION. Visit our Red Classics mini-site to find out more



To celebrate this seminal novel, we’re bringing out an exquisite hardback edition of the UNCENSORED MANUSCRIPT, unexpurgated, and that means with all of the sex and drug references that were considered too explicit at the original publication.

We’re publishing it as the original 'scroll'. Kerouac’s ‘automatic writing’ reached its apogee in this novel, which is the cornerstone of the Beat Generation.

Plus, to commemorate the anniversary, we’re also rejacketing five of Kerouac’s novels in our new look Penguin Modern Classics.