The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel.

National Review | February 10, 1989| | Copyright

The Fools Progress: An Honest Novel by Edward Abbey (Holt, 485 pp., $19.95)

THERE ARE similarities between the European adventurer Napoleon Bonaparte and the Western writer Edward Abbey: Napoleon attempted to conquer Europe, Russia, and part of the New World; Abbey has set his sights on a land area of roughly the same size-the American West. The differences between the two are also striking: Napoleon went where the people were; Abbey cares only about land empty of people. Had Edward Abbey been in charge of Napoleon's Russian campaign, he would have ignored Moscow ...

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