The Dharma Bums

  • The Dharma Bums
    The Dharma Bums
    By Jack Kerouac

    During the 1950s the search for Buddhist truths takes two young Bohemians through a series of bizarre experiences in California

  • The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    By Jack Kerouac

    The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans--mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer--whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam ...

  • The Dharma Bums
    The Dharma Bums
    By Jack Kerouac

    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.

  • The Dharma Bums
    The Dharma Bums
    By Jack Kerouac

    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.

  • The Dharma Bums
    By Jack Kerouac

    Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or truth.

  • The Dharma Bums
    By Jack Kerouac

    Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or truth.

  • The Dharma Bums
    By Jack Kerouac

    Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or truth.

  • The Dharma Bums
    The Dharma Bums
    By Jack Kerouac

    One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac.

  • The Dharma Bums
    The Dharma Bums
    By Jack Kerouac

    Two ebullient young men are 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...