The Fountainhead Contributor(s): Rand, Ayn (Author), Peikoff, Leonard (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451191153 ISBN-13: 9780451191151 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 97818429 |
Lexile Measure: 780 |
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 4.2" W x 6.9" (0.75 lbs) 720 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 12784 Reading Level: 7.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 53.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim. This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand's provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction--that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress... "A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall."--The New York Times |