Flavorwire’s Emily Temple finds 10 Lost Novels the World Found Again. From Jane Austen’s The Watsons to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Narrative of John Smith … there’s something exciting and mysterious about these unpublished manuscripts discovered after our favorite authors’ deaths. The Sea is My Brother, recently published in November 2011 by Penguin Classics, was Jack Kerouac’s first novel. It is the tale of two young sailors on a journey from Boston to Greenland.
The literary critic Stuart Evers said: “It is not a great work of literature. It would never be published today if it wasn’t by Kerouac, but it is fascinating as an insight into him as a writer … He was just jotting down ideas that he would explore with much more gusto in his later work. There is no real narrative, not much happens, but there are flashes of his later work.”
