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The Monkey Wrench Gang
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Edward Abbey |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Anarchist, novel |
| Publisher | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
Publication date | August 1, 1975 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 352 pp (hardback edition) |
| ISBN | 0397010842 (hardback edition) |
| OCLC | 1256794 |
| 813/.5/4 | |
| LC Class | PZ4.A124 Mo PS3551.B2 |
| Followed by | Hayduke Lives! |
The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975.
Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench," often used as a verb, has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems.
In 1985, Dream Garden Press released a special 10th Anniversary edition of the book featuring illustrations by R. Crumb, plus a chapter titled "Seldom Seen at Home" that had been deleted from the original edition.[1] Crumb's illustrations were used for a limited-edition calendar based on the book.[2] The most recent edition was released in 2006 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
- ^ "The Monkey Wrench Gang". www.abbeyweb.net.
- ^ "The 1987 Monkey Wrench Gang Calendar". www.abbeyweb.net.
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