Authors: Ayn Rand, Edward Herrmann
ISBN-13: 9781598872187, ISBN-10: 1598872184
Format: MP3 Book
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Date Published: March 2007
Edition: Abridged
Ayn Rand is one of the rare writers who not only drew in readers with her novels, but created a philosophical movement with them. Her seminal Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, cornerstones of her individualistic Objectivist world view, can be viewed as literature, self-empowerment texts, or both.
The Fountainhead studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism.
Rand's hero is Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect who won't compromise his integrity, especially in the unconventional buildings he designs. Roark is engaged in ideological warfare with a society that despises him, an architectural community that doesn't understand him, and a woman who loves him but wants to destroy him. His struggle raises questions about society's attitude toward revolutionaries. Since this book's publication in 1943, Rand's controversial ideas have made her one of the best-selling authors of all time.
Ayn Rand is a writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.
Part 1 | Peter Keating | 3 |
Part 2 | Ellsworth M. Toohey | 203 |
Part 3 | Gail Wynand | 405 |
Part 4 | Howard Roark | 527 |