Doctor Sax

Doctor SaxKerouac's autobiographical account of his Beat years, new to Penguin Modern Classics Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachussetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents,

her relationship with Edward Weston and friendships with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society

“Wasting My Young Years”

Full Moon in Paris and The Green Ray by Éric Rohmer

for students in search of a quick refresher course

The Newport Jazz Festival was created in 1954 by Rhode Island socialites Elaine and Louis Lorillard

This edition features an updated introduction adapted from an interview in 2016

Days of Being Wild (1990)

inter-ethnic and religious violence

Near despair

and culture ― "one of the few contemporary works deserving classic status” (Nicholas Shakespeare

witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment