Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In Why Kerouac Matters, John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion of the novel, arguing that it still matters because it lays out an alternative road map to growing up. Along the way, Leland overturns many misconceptions about On the Road as he examines the lessons that Kerouac?s alter ego, Sal Paradise, absorbs and dispenses on his novelistic journey to manhood, and how those lessons?about work and money, love and sex, art and holiness? still reverberate today.

Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)

Biographies & Memoirs

LELAND, JOHN

Arts & Literature

Penguin Publishing Group

The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary: Publish'd From the Original Ms. in the Bodleian Library, Volumes 1-3

Hearne, Thomas

History

Franklin Classics

A New York Times Bestseller!
An extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being, Happiness Is a Choice You Make weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yorkers who number among the “oldest old”― those eighty-five and up.
In 2015, when the award-winning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of The New York Times to meet members of America’s fastest-growing age group, he anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction. Despite disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended contemporary notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise.
Happiness Is a Choice You Make is an enduring collection of lessons that emphasizes, above all, the extraordinary influence we wield over the quality of our lives. With humility, heart, and wit, Leland has crafted a sophisticated and necessary reflection on how to “live better”―informed by those who have mastered the art.

Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old

Self-Help

Happiness

Sarah Crichton Books

A New York Times Bestseller!
An extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being, Happiness Is a Choice You Make weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yorkers who number among the “oldest old”―those eighty-five and up.
In 2015, when the award-winning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of The New York Times to meet members of America’s fastest-growing age group, he anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction. Despite disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended contemporary notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise.
Happiness Is a Choice You Make is an enduring collection of lessons that emphasizes, above all, the extraordinary influence we wield over the quality of our lives. With humility, heart, and wit, Leland has crafted a sophisticated and necessary reflection on how to “live better”―informed by those who have mastered the art.

Longsword, Earl of Salisbury; An Historical Romance (Gothic Novels)

Leland, Thomas

Literature & Fiction

Ayer Co. Pub

The Advantage And Necessity Of Christian Revelation V1: Shown From The State Of Religion In The Ancient Heathen World

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

The Advantage and Necessity of Christian Revelation V2: Shown from the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Advantage And Necessity Of Christian Revelation V2: Shown From The State Of Religion In The Ancient Heathen World

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

VIKING

John Leland's Itinerary: Travels in Tudor England

The widely quoted but barely accessible account of Leland's travels during the 1530s and 1540s, now in modern English, arranged by county in alphabetical order, and cheap enough for any student with a night job. After a substantial introduction and bibliography, the text speaks without annotation. Well illustrated and indexed in detail. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

CHANDLER, John

Social Sciences

Sutton Pub Ltd

Itinerary in England and Wales

Kendrick

SMITH, TOULMIN

British & Irish

Open Gate Press

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