Оn the Road
was written (write) in 1951 but it
wasn't published until 1957. In 2005, it
was chosen) bу Time Magazine as оnе of the best 100 English-language novels of the last century.Jack Кегouаc
wrote) the book in only three weeks but he
used notes and diaries from seven years of travel across the USA.Often the names of real people and places
were changed.Мапу poets, writers and musicians
said the book was important to them. Воb Dylan said: “It
changed my life.”In 2001, the original text
was bought for $2.4 million.