Condition: Acceptable. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. John Hopewell; Elsa Keslassy (12 May 2010). "Dunst joins Stewart On the Road". Variety. [ permanent dead link] Toad on the frog! Ha! Just kidding. There's a bear riding a bike and once everyone freaked out. The bear said, "Skedaddle! Get out of the road before you get run over!" Puff! Scream! "What is your Mom gonna say?" Oh No! There's a Toad on the Road! And then, there is a Vole in a Van! Usually, no organised attempt is made to help these tiny toads across the road – catching them is not easy – although in 2020, when there seemed to be an exceptionally high number of toadlets heading for the road, volunteers collected over 12,000 of them and released them into Oaken Grove woods. Fortunately, when toadlets are on the move between dusk and dawn in the spring it is in the middle of the night and traffic is considerably lighter. Robert Kirsch in The Los Angeles Times said, "Mr. Kerouac may one day be a good writer, but that day will come when he stops riding around in a compulsive search for "material" and settles down to learn some of the first things about the craft...Mr. Kerouac calls this "The Beat Generation," but a much more accurate description would be "The Deadbeat Generation." I don't know whether such people really exist, but if they do, he has thoroughly failed to make them believable." [20]

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Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. a b James Mottram (12 September 2008). "The long and grinding story of On The Road". The Independent. Archived from the original on June 1, 2009. A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature.

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Come along in, and have some lunch,' he said, diplomatically, 'and we'll talk it over. We needn't decide anything in a hurry. Of course, I don't really care. I only want to give pleasure to you fellows. "Live for others!" That's my motto in life.' The New York Times hailed the book's appearance as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest, and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac, himself, named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." [1] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. [2] Production and publication [ edit ] The factors influencing the size of breeding migration each year are unknown, but these encouraging numbers suggest the toads of Oaken Grove are probably the largest accurately monitored toad population in the UK. The dataset is one of the longest, if not the longest, continuous dataset available for any amphibian in the UK (see also Reading and Jofré[ 5]). Kenneth Grahame, "The Open Road," The Wind in the Willows, Lit2Go Edition, (1908), accessed November 01, 2023, https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/105/the-wind-in-the-willows/1795/the-open-road/.

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We have been consistently collecting data on toad numbers since 1999 (see figure 4, below). Volunteers very efficiently report their numbers to the author of this paper each evening, enabling daily and seasonal totals to be determined. This data shows that the size of the seasonal toad migration has varied five-fold in the last 24 years (1999 to 2022). The lowest total (2,088 toads) was recorded in 2014, while the highest total (10,501) was recorded in 2010. Mrs. Toad: You see, ey? You become a big a-star like me. We make big moneys together. You make Mama rich. You are important person. You are famous. You are a star! They're not renowned for their cuddly good looks, but to William Seale and his band of dedicated volunteers, rescuing these jaywalking creatures has become a labour of love... Bignell, Paul (29 July 2007). " On the Road (uncensored). Discovered: Kerouac "cuts" ". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 . Retrieved 2007-08-02. I don't know that I think so VERY much of that little song, Rat,' observed the Mole cautiously. He was no poet himself and didn't care who knew it; and he had a candid nature.Beebee, T.J. Effects of road mortality and mitigation measures on amphibia populations. Conserv. Biol. 27, 657–668 (2013).

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How many people love toads? The correct answer is ‘more than you might think’. The evidence comes from the many hundreds of ‘Toads-on-Roads’ schemes dotted around the UK. In densely populated and affluent countries such as the UK, road traffic is quite possibly the biggest threat faced by toads and other amphibians.Let's sit quiet a bit, Toady!' said the Rat, throwing himself into an easy chair, while the Mole took another by the side of him and made some civil remark about Toad's 'delightful residence.' Viking Press released a slightly edited version of the original manuscript, titled On the Road: The Original Scroll (August 16, 2007), corresponding with the 50th anniversary of original publication. This version has been transcribed and edited by English academic and novelist Howard Cunnell. As well as containing material that was excised from the original draft, due to its explicit nature, the scroll version also uses the real names of the protagonists, so Dean Moriarty becomes Neal Cassady and Carlo Marx becomes Allen Ginsberg, etc. [11] After seeing Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Coppola appointed Salles to direct the movie. [35] In preparation for the film, Salles traveled the United States, tracing Kerouac's journey and filming a documentary on the search for On the Road. [36] Sam Riley starred as Sal Paradise. Garrett Hedlund portrayed Dean Moriarty. [36] Kristen Stewart played Mary Lou. [37] Kirsten Dunst portrayed Camille. [38] The film screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 [39] and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. [40]

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Toad sat straight down in the middle of the dusty road, his legs stretched out before him, and stared fixedly in the direction of the disappearing motor-car. He breathed short, his face wore a placid satisfied expression, and at intervals he faintly murmured 'Poop-poop!' The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s, in a series of notebooks and then typed out, on a continuous reel of paper, during three weeks in April 1951. It was published by Viking Press in 1957. My father became my main assistant and moral support. (He regards ‘toading’ as his Lent penance, but it does have the advantage that he can carry on eating sweets guilt free - he would otherwise feel he should give them up for Lent!).This collection of children's literature is a part of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse and is funded by various grants. Volunteer conservation groups across Europe are estimated to have moved millions of toads, and have helped provide data that shows large-scale and long-term declines in the common toad[ 6]. Many populations have declined in each decade since the 1980s to the extent that this common species now almost qualifies for International Union for the Conservation of Nature red-listing.