# On the Road: The Original Scroll

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- Book: [On the Road: The Original Scroll](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road-the-original-scroll) ([On the Road: The Original Scroll.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road-the-original-scroll.md))
- Authors: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-205-3
- Published: 2011-07-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road , published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it. On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, " a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As " Sal Paradise" and " Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance.