Grand Pump Room, Bath one of its guest conductors during the early 20th century. The novelist Jane Austen was familiar with the Pump Room, which is used as a setting in her novels "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion". It was a meeting place for fashionable people, where "Every creature in Bath [...] was to be seen in the room at different periods of the fashionable hours". It is here that Catherine Morland, the heroine of "Northanger Abbey" first meets Henry Tilney, another principal character in the novel. In "Persuasion", Admiral Croft retires to Bath to take the waters, because of his gout. The Pump Room
Black Sun (Abbey novel) "Edward Abbey: A Life", "The New Yorker" called "Black Sun" "an embarrassingly bad novel." Abbey himself, however, considered it one of the best books he had ever written. Black Sun (Abbey novel) Black Sun is a 1971 novel by Edward Abbey. The term "black sun" was used often in Abbey's work. He used it first in his second book, "Fire on the Mountain" to describe a sketch Billy makes after they discover someone has shot Billy's favorite horse, Rascal. He also uses it twice in his non-fiction book, "The Journey Home" and once in "Abbey's Road". Although the location is