The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men

This is a celebration of the anti-establishment literature of the 1950’s. Here you will find the works of Jack Kerouac, Williams Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Kingsley Amis, J. P. Donleavy, Norman Mailer, Colin Wilson and many more. In America they were the beat generation—beaten down or upbeat, depending who you talk to—and in England they were the angry young men—working and middle class writers who were disillusioned with traditional English society.