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Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical...
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975.
Easily Abbey's most famous fiction work, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the American...
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- 1975
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- Aug 1, 1975
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Hayduke Lives
Hayduke Lives! (ISBN 0-316-00411-1), written in 1989 by Edward Abbey, is the sequel to the popular book The Monkey Wrench Gang. It was published posthumously in 1990.
Hayduke Lives! picks up after the (literal) cliffhanger at the end of the previous...
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- 1990
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Black Sun
Black Sun is a 1971 novel by Edward Abbey about a rugged fire lookout who falls in love with an American girl half his age and then becomes wrongly blamed when she mysteriously disappears in the National Park where he works.
The term "black sun" was...
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- 1971
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Desert Solitaire
This article is about the book. For the album dedicated to Edward Abbey see Desert Solitaire (album).
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is a literary nonfiction work by Edward Abbey (1927–89), published originally in 1968.
His fourth book...
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The Fool's Progress
The Fool's Progress is a book by Edward Abbey, published in 1988.
It is the saga of a journey - a journey through space, a journey through the hero's personal history, and a quest to find meaning under the shadow of death. The journey starts as...
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- 1988
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- 21593
Fire on the Mountain
Fire on the Mountain is a 1962 novel by Edward Abbey. It was Abbey's third published novel and followed Jonathan Troy and The Brave Cowboy.
The hero of the story is John Vogelin, a New Mexico rancher whose land is about to be condemned by the United...
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Jonathan Troy
Jonathan Troy (1954) was Edward Abbey's first published novel, as detailed in James M. Cahalan's biography of Abbey. Only 5,000 copies were printed and almost immediately after it was released the author wanted to disown the work. He asked that it...
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- 1954
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The Brave Cowboy
The Brave Cowboy (1956) was Edward Abbey's second published novel, as detailed in James M. Cahalan's biography of Abbey. The first-edition of the book is considered the rarest of Abbey's eight novels. There was only one printing of 5,000 copies and...
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- 1956
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Good News
Good News is a 1980 novel by Edward Abbey.
It is set in a Phoenix, Arizona of the near future after the economy and government have collapsed. Small bands of people (including Jack Burns, the hero from an earlier Abbey novel The Brave Cowboy) are...
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- 1980
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Down the River
Down the River is a book by Edward Abbey, published in 1982. It is a loose collection of autobiographical and philosophical essays about the wilderness, written between 1978 and 1982.
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Abbey's road
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Slumgullion Stew
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Postcards from Ed
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Cactus country
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Night at Sea
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Désert solitaire
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Appalachian Wilderness
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Slickrock
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Vox clamantis in deserto
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Walk in the Desert
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Beyond the Wall
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