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An edition of The Dharma Bums (1950)

The Dharma bums

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The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.

The book concerns duality in Kerouac's life and ideals, examining the relationship of the outdoors, mountaineering, hiking, and hitchhiking through the west US with his "city life" of jazz clubs, poetry readings, and drunken parties. The protagonist's search for a "Buddhist" context to his experiences (and those of others he encounters) recurs throughout the story. The book had a significant influence on the Hippie counterculture of the 1960s.

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Penguin Books
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English
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187

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2018, Penguin Books, Limited
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2011, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Dharma Bums
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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2008, Viking
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2006, Penguin Books
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Brodi︠a︡gi dkharmy
2003, Azbuka-klassika
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March 2001, Anagrama
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August 3, 2000, Penguin Classics
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1994, Flamingo
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1992, Paladin/ Harper Collins
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1990, Penguin Books
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1986, Penguin
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1986, Buccaneer Books
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1981, Bruguera
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1976, Buccaneer Books
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May 27, 1976, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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May 27, 1976, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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June 1976, Amereon Limited
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June 1976, Lightyear Press
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1973, Deutsch
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The Dharma bums
1972, Panther
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Dharma Bums
1972, Penguin Publishing Group
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1972, Grafton Books
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Dharma Bums
1971, Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Books
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The Dharma bums
1971, Viking
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The Dharma Bums
May 27, 1971, Perfection Learning
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The Dharma bums
1970, Buccaneer Books
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December 1, 1967, Signet
Paperback
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December 1, 1967, Signet
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The Dharma Bums
1962, Pan
Paperback - 1st UK softcover
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1959, Penguin Publishing Group
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1959, Penguin Publishing Group
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1959, Deutsch
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1959, Deutsch
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Dharma Bums
1959, Penguin Publishing Group, Signet
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Dharma Bums
1959, Penguin Publishing Group
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The Dharma bums.
1959, Deutsch
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Dharma Bums
1959, Penguin Publishing Group
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October 1, 1959, Signet
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The Dharma Bums (Signet)
October 1, 1959, Signet
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Dharma Bums
1959, Penguin Publishing Group
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The Dharma bums.
1958, Viking Press
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The Dharma bums
1958, Deutsch
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Dharma Bums
1958, Penguin Publishing Group
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The Dharma bums.
1958, Viking Press
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The Dharma bums
1958-01-01, Viking Press, Penguin Books
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The Dharma bums.
1950, Deutsch
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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1958

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix])

Published in
New York
Series
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3521.E735 D48 2006, PS3521.E735D48 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 187 p. ;
Number of pages
187

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17213572M
Internet Archive
dharmabums0000kero_e9y0
ISBN 10
0143039601
ISBN 13
9780143039600
LCCN
2006051511
OCLC/WorldCat
71427510
Library Thing
7199
Goodreads
23492

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