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The Earth is Enough

1995 novel by Harry Middleton

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7731433 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Earth is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Trout and Old Men is a book by American nature writer Harry Middleton, published in March 1989 by the Pruett Publishing Company. The book chronicles Middleton's young life in the Ozark mountains.

Editorial summary

“The Earth is Enough” enters the record as 1995 novel by Harry Middleton. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Earth, Enough and novel can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Earth, Enough and novel.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“The Earth is Enough” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Earth, Enough and novel provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7731433. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Earth is Enough”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Earth is Enough primary sources, The Earth is Enough archive and Earth research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Earth is Enough”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Earth is Enough” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.