Spontaneously written in a series of notebooks between 1952 and 1960, the Book of Dreams is Jack Kerouac's autobiography as told through dreams. Each morning, immediately upon waking, Kerouac would scribble down everything he could remember about his dreams. The first edition of the text, published by Ferlinghetti in 1961, contained a little more than half of the original manuscript. The current volume presents Kerouac's manuscript in its entirety. c. Book News Inc.