The Fountainhead [electronic resource]
Rand, Ayn1994
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One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters: Howard Roarke, the genius who is resented because he creates purely for the delight of his own work and on no other terms; Gail Wynand, the newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire whose power was bought by sacrificing his ideals to the lowest common denominator of public taste; and Dominique Francon, the devastating beauty whose desperate search for meaning has been twisted, through despair, into a quest to destroy the single object of her desire: Howard Roarke. Dramatic, poetic, and demanding, The Fountainhead remains one of the towering books on the contemporary intellectual scene.
Main title:
The Fountainhead [electronic resource] / Ayn Rand
Author:
Rand, Ayn, AuthorHurt, Christopher, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 1994
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Audience:
Reading grade level: 3-4
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) was born in Russia, graduated from the University of Leningrad, and came to the United States in 1926. She published her first novel in 1936. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943, she achieved a spectacular and enduring success, and her unique philosophy, Objectivism, gained a worldwide following.
ISBN:
9781483077031
Language:
English
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BRN:
2835811
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