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Anthem is Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dark future age of the great "We"-a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. Written a full decade before George Orwell's "1984, " this dystopian novel depicts a man who seeks escape from a society in which individuality has been utterly destroyed. Rand expertly shows how collectivism (including social programs in the United States) destroys freedom and individuality. Her philoso...

In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.

Anthem is Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dark future age of the great "We"-a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. Written a full decade before George Orwell's "1984, " this dystopian novel depicts a man who seeks escape from a society in which individuality has been utterly destroyed. Rand expertly shows how collectivism (including social programs in the United States) destroys freedom and individuality. Her philoso...

Anthem is Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dark future age of the great "We"-a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. Written a full decade before George Orwell's "1984, " this dystopian novel depicts a man who seeks escape from a society in which individuality has been utterly destroyed. Rand expertly shows how collectivism (including social programs in the United States) destroys freedom and individuality. Her philoso...

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Anthem is a dystopian science fiction novella by Ayn Rand. Mankind has entered a new dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. Individuality and ambition have become sins. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all). Here is the story of one man willing to risk everything to rebel against a society that refuses to bel...

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the worldand did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies, but against the woman he loves?

Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon.

Written in the last decades of Rands life, these pieces reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity, while covering topics as diverse as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe.

Written in the last decades of Rands life, these pieces reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity, while covering topics as diverse as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe.

Written with all the power and conviction that made THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED classics of American letters, Ayn Rand's ANTHEM is a hymn to man's independent spirit and to the highest word in the human language -- the word "Ego." ANTHEM tells the story of a man who rediscovers individualism and his own "I" It is a world of absolute collectivization, a world where sightless, joyless, selfless men exist for the sake of serving the Stat...

The Fountainhead is the story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle with conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with the beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. Arguably the centurys most challenging novel of ideas, the nove

This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy but which one to have. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Rand's Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays address such basic issues as ed...

This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy but which one to have. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Rand's Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays address such basic issues as ed...

Contro una società sempre più massificata, contro le limitazioni imposte all'iniziativa individuale, contro una politica che può che portare alla distruzione della ricchezza nazionale, l'unico modo per reagire è organizzarsi, fare propaganda, ribellarsi. Per questo Francisco, Ragnar e John hanno messo in atto lo sciopero dei cervelli e hanno riunito gli industriali innovatori, i reali produttori del benessere naz...

Come può sopravvivere e realizzarsi a pieno l'uomo razionale in un contesto sociale irrazionale? Solo in una società fondata sulla libera circolazione delle idee e sulla massima libertà di agire e commerciare, il potenziale umano - quello spirito creativo che ciascun individuo trasfonde fiducioso al proprio lavoro - è in grado di esplicarsi al massimo livello. L'eroe di Ayn Rand, l'uomo dall'intelligenza vivace, ...

Rand was a Russian born American author who pioneered the philosophy of "objectivism". Anthem is a futuristic science fiction novella. Man is in a dark age, because of earlier socialistic values. Technology is carefully planned and rarely allowed to advance. Individualism has almost ceased to exist. The theme of individualism versus collectivism runs throughout the novella.

La splendida e tormentata attrice Kay Gonda è accusata di omicidio ed è costretta a nascondersi. Cerca rifugio da sei suoi ammiratori che in passato le avevano scritto lettere piene di amore e di passione: un rispettabile padre di famiglia, un attivista di sinistra, un artista cinico, un pastore evangelico, un playboy e un derelitto. Ciascuno reagisce alla richiesta di aiuto a modo suo, mostrando i valori in cui crede e i trat...

Ayn Rand Commentary: The End of the Road Ayn Rand presents her views of the world, politics, and human thought. Episode One focuses on the political state in America including Lyndon Johnson and McCarthy. BROADCAST: WBAI, 4 Apr. 1968.

Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.