# The Dharma Bums

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- Authors: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-04-05

## Description

THE DHARMA BUMS appeared just one year after the author's explosive ON THE ROAD had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparks this one too, but through a more cohesive story. The books follow two young men engaged 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.

## Editions

### The Dharma Bums

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- Medium: audio
- Length: 7 h 17 min
- ISBN: 978-02-4154-598-0
- Published: 2021-05-20
- Language: en_GB

### The Dharma Bums

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4134-806-2
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2018-08-02
- Language: en_GB

### The Dharma Bums

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-206-0
- Published: 2011-07-21
- Language: en_GB

### The Dharma Bums

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-488-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2007-09-06
- Language: en_GB

### The Dharma Bums

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4303-960-0
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2007-04-05
- Language: en_GB

### The Dharma Bums

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4004-252-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1971-05-27
- Language: en_US