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Ayn Rand Box Set: ATLAS SHRUGGED and THE FOUNTAINHEAD
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are two Ayn Rand masterpieces that are presented together in a boxed set for the first time.
Ayn Rand's magnum opus of a philosophical revolution dramatised in the manner of an action thriller, Atlas Shrugged is populated with larger-than-life heroes and villains and packed with lofty concerns of good and evil. It tells the tale of a guy who promised to stop the world's engine and actually did so. Was he the greatest liberator or a destroyer? Why did he have to wage his battle—his toughest battle—against the woman he loved, not against his adversaries but against those who needed him most? What drives the globe and every man's motivation?
Ayn Rand's magnum opus of a philosophical revolution dramatised in the manner of an action thriller, Atlas Shrugged is populated with larger-than-life heroes and villains and packed with lofty concerns of good and evil. It tells the tale of a guy who promised to stop the world's engine and actually did so. Was he the greatest liberator or a destroyer? Why did he have to wage his battle—his toughest battle—against the woman he loved, not against his adversaries but against those who needed him most? What drives the globe and every man's motivation?
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Published June 5, 2023
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Ayn Rand
591 books10.4k followersPolemical novels, such as
The Fountainhead
(1943), of primarily known Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianism.
Fiction of this better author and philosopher developed a system that she named. Educated, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early initially duds and two Broadway plays, Rand achieved fame. In 1957, she published Atlas Shrugged , her best-selling work.
Rand advocated reason and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism as opposed to altruism. She condemned the immoral initiation of force and supported laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system, based on recognizing individual rights, including private property. Often associated with the modern movement in the United States, Rand opposed and viewed anarchism. In art, she promoted romantic realism. She sharply criticized most philosophers and their traditions with few exceptions.
Books of Rand sold more than 37 million copies. From literary critics, her fiction received mixed reviews with more negative reviews for her later work. Afterward, she turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy, published her own periodicals, and released several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
After her death, her ideas interested academics, but philosophers generally ignored or rejected her and argued that her approach and work lack methodological rigor. She influenced some right conservatives. The movement circulates her ideas to the public and in academic settings.
Fiction of this better author and philosopher developed a system that she named. Educated, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early initially duds and two Broadway plays, Rand achieved fame. In 1957, she published Atlas Shrugged , her best-selling work.
Rand advocated reason and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism as opposed to altruism. She condemned the immoral initiation of force and supported laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system, based on recognizing individual rights, including private property. Often associated with the modern movement in the United States, Rand opposed and viewed anarchism. In art, she promoted romantic realism. She sharply criticized most philosophers and their traditions with few exceptions.
Books of Rand sold more than 37 million copies. From literary critics, her fiction received mixed reviews with more negative reviews for her later work. Afterward, she turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy, published her own periodicals, and released several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
After her death, her ideas interested academics, but philosophers generally ignored or rejected her and argued that her approach and work lack methodological rigor. She influenced some right conservatives. The movement circulates her ideas to the public and in academic settings.
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