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The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

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ISBN13: 9780451191151
ISBN10: 0451191153
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In a brand-new Plume hardcover edition, here is the story of an intransigent young architect, Howard Roark, of his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who worships him yet struggles to defeat him. In order to build his kind of buildings according to his own standards, Roark must fight against every variant of human corruption, including an unprincipled, parasitic rival; a powerful publisher of yellow journalism; and, worst of all, the country's leading humanitarian and power-luster ("Everything that can't be ruled, must go").

Epochal, impassioned, and hugely controversial, The Fountainhead — with more than six million copies in print — has become the classic American statement of individualism. Rand shows why every great innovator was hated and denounced, and why man's ego is the fountainhead of human greatness.

Brilliantly written and daringly original, here — as resonant today as it was sixty years ago — is a novel about a hero.

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When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special Afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand's own notes on the making of The Fountainhead. As fresh today as it was then, here is a novel about a hero--and about those who try to destroy him.

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Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.
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Mark Gardiner, September 15, 2011 (view all comments by Mark Gardiner)
One or the best books I have ever read. I could not put it down.
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lofti-reader, January 12, 2011 (view all comments by lofti-reader)
Looooove this book. 2010 was a year for regularly recommended but often ignored books for me. The Fountainhead and A Prayer for Owen Meany stand out as all-time favorites, and books I will certainly read again and again.
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eglazier, January 9, 2010 (view all comments by eglazier)
i first read this novel when it was published in 1943 and it captured me completely, but then i was only 14 and i thought as a child.
for all its vaunted fame, it probably is one of the most badly written novels i have had the misfortune to wade through. even if one ignores its childish philosophy that cannot stand up to the scrutiny of the mind of the average adult, the novel itself is full of wooden characters doing stupid things and , because of the mind of the author, getting away with them. there is nothing in this novel that could be called realistic, as anyone who has lived and worked even for a decade in the real world of people would know.
i guess that the worst thing about the novel is that to any thinking person, it is one big bore.
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ISBN:
9780451191151
Introduction:
Rand, Ayn
Afterword:
Peikoff, Leonard
Introduction by:
Rand, Ayn
Introduction:
Rand, Ayn
Author:
Rand, Ayn
Author:
Peikoff, Leonard
Afterword by:
Peikoff, Leonard
Afterword:
Peikoff, Leonard
Author:
Peikoff, Leonard
Publisher:
New American Library
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Man-woman relationships
Subject:
Psychological
Subject:
Individualism
Subject:
Architects
Subject:
Factacn
Subject:
Philosophical literature.
Subject:
Object (Philosophy) -- Fiction.
Subject:
Object
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Psychological fiction
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Copyright:
1943
Edition Description:
Revised
Series Volume:
76
Publication Date:
July 1996
Binding:
MASS MARKET
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Pages:
720
Dimensions:
6.98x4.23x1.48 in. .77 lbs.
Age Level:
from 18
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When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special Afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand's own notes on the making of The Fountainhead. As fresh today as it was then, here is a novel about a hero--and about those who try to destroy him.
"Synopsis" by , Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.
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