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Personal (1938 - 1950)

Previously Unpublished Ayn Rand Letters (#4)

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Ayn Rand
This is the fourth and final installment featuring previously unpublished Ayn Rand letters selected by Michael S. Berliner, editor of Letters of Ayn Rand, and grouped by topics: Hollywood, fiction, nonfiction (including political activism), and personal correspondence.
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Nonfiction & Activism (1941 – 1961)

Previously Unpublished Ayn Rand Letters (#3)

Author
Ayn Rand
Published
2019
This is the third of four installments featuring previously unpublished Ayn Rand letters selected by Michael S. Berliner, editor of Letters of Ayn Rand, and grouped by topics: Hollywood, fiction, nonfiction (including political activism), and personal correspondence.
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Fiction (1935 – 1980)

Previously Unpublished Ayn Rand Letters (#2)

Author
Ayn Rand
Published
2019
This is the second of four installments featuring previously unpublished Ayn Rand letters selected by Michael S. Berliner, editor of Letters of Ayn Rand, and grouped by topics: Hollywood, fiction, nonfiction (including political activism), and personal correspondence.
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Hollywood (1944 - 1949)

Previously Unpublished Ayn Rand Letters (#1)

Author
Ayn Rand
Published
2019
This is the first of four installments featuring previously unpublished Ayn Rand letters selected by Michael S. Berliner, editor of Letters of Ayn Rand, and grouped by topics: Hollywood, fiction, nonfiction (including political activism), and personal correspondence.
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Atlas Shrugged

Author
Ayn Rand
Published
1957
Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, a mystery story on a global scale that centers not on the murder of one man’s body, but on the murder — and rebirth — of man’s spirit, all unfolding from the enigmatic question with which the novel begins: “Who is John Galt?”
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The Fountainhead

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Ayn Rand
Published
1943
The story of Howard Roark, an innovative architect who breaks with tradition, recognizes no authority but that of his own independent judgment, and struggles for the integrity of his creative work against every form of social opposition.
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Anthem

Author
Ayn Rand
Published
1938
The story of one man’s rebellion against a future dystopia in which independent thought is a crime, science and technology have regressed to primitive levels, and collectivism is so ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language.
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We the Living

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Ayn Rand
Published
1936
Ayn Rand’s poignant story of a young woman who struggles to live and love in a collectivist dictatorship that suffocates the spirits of its best citizens.
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The Virtue of Selfishness

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Ayn Rand
Published
1964
Essays expounding Ayn Rand’s “new concept of egoism,” a morality of rational selfishness that rejects all forms of sacrifice — both the sacrifice of others to self (the typical brutish concept of “selfishness”) and the sacrifice of self to others (the conventional morality of altruism).
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Philosophy: Who Needs It

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Ayn Rand
Published
1982
In this essay collection, Ayn Rand argues that philosophy is not a useless pastime for brooding teenagers or ivory-tower intellectuals but a vitally necessary subject with profound implications for the most important issues in human life.
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

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Ayn Rand
Published
1966
A collection of essays that demolish many of the myths surrounding laissez-faire capitalism and explain, in theoretical and historical detail, why Ayn Rand regarded it not merely as an engine of economic progress, but as a profoundly moral social system.
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Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

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Ayn Rand
Published
1966
An introduction to Objectivism’s theory of knowledge through its account of the nature and formation of concepts — a non-skeptical, non-mystical theory of how concepts allow man to acquire vast knowledge of the universe, unattainable on the perceptual level of consciousness.
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