The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred 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, essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s. The book largely concerns duality in Kerouac's life and ideals, examining the relationship that the outdoors, bicycling, mountaineering, hiking and hitchhiking through the West had with his "city life" of jazz clubs, poetry readings, and drunken parties.

The 2569th greatest fiction book of all time


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The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback 411272 $8.72 $3.25 2006
Dharma Bums 1st Edition Hardcover 2205980 $299.99
Dharma Bums Audio CD 941594 $12.24 $9.98
The Dharma Bums Hardcover 2225800 $20.57 $15.96 1995
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The Dharma Bums (Signet) Mass Market Paperback 1478368 $55.93 $5.27 1959
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The Dharma Bums: 50th Anniversary Edition Hardcover 3253678 $11.95 $11.95 2008
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By Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960: On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans / Tristessa / (1st) Hardcover 964052 $45.99 $38.89 2007
The Dharma Bums: 2 Hardcover 4659380 $302.25 1958
The Dharma Bums Mass Market Paperback 4540361 $339.57 $12.95 1972
Los Vagabundos del Dharma (Spanish Edition) Paperback 2700548 $10.79 2000
The Dharma Bums: Library Edition Audio CD 2811061 $34.65 $21.93
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The Dharma Bums: 50th Anniversary Edition Hardcover 1487606 $197.33 $24.63 2008
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By Jack Kerouac - Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960: On the Road/The Dharma Bums/The Subterraneans/Tristessa/Lonesome Traveler/From the Journals 1949-1954 (Library of America) (8/16/07) Hardcover 5828801 $59.84 $47.95 2007
Dharma Bums Hardcover 2106335 $25.99 $83.90
On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans Paperback 1434798 $89.00 $30.46 1993
The Dharma Bums: 50th Anniversary Edition Hardcover 1275640 $70.50 $35.96 2008
The Dharma Bums (Signet) Mass Market Paperback 3043235 $119.66 $11.90 1959
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The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Publisher: Penguin Classics; Deluxe edition Paperback 612689 $11.95 $8.95
The Dharma Bums Mass Market Paperback 3398412 $24.94 1959
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The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Kindle Edition 72293 $12.99 1971