The Monkey Wrench Gang

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
Dewey Decimal	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.