Books with title Machines on the Road

Three generations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their discovery of On the Road as the event that "set them free."On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling North America 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 a work of lasting importance. Performed by Matt Dillon

Written in vivid detail, Kerouac's autobiographical novel describes the epic trek of his alter-ego Sal Paradise from the East coast to San Francisco; it continues today as the benchmark work of Beat fiction. The title, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Jack Kerouac, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

From rush hour on a busy city street to harvest time down on the farm, the Wheels at Work series provides a close-up look at the world of hardworking trucks, buses, ambulances, tractors, combines and more. With simple narrative sentences and vibrant, detailed artwork, these books put kids behind the wheels of some formidable machines. The vehicles they see every day -- in the city or in the country -- are brought to life on each appealing page.