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ARF000-194 Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead.nfo
General Information
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 Title:                  The Fountainhead
 Author:                 Ayn Rand
 Read By:                Christopher Hurt
 Copyright:              1943
 Audiobook Copyright:    1994
 Genre:                  Classic
 Publisher:              Blackstone Audiobooks
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Media:                  MP3CD
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Good - 128Kbps.js

File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         194
 Total Duration:         31:58:31
 Total MP3 Size:         1,100.16
 Parity Archive:         No
 Ripped By:              3j
 Encoded With:           LAME
 Encoded At:             CBR 80 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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Summary
One of Modern Library's 100 Best English-Language Novels of the Twentieth
Century


champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young
architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion.

The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity
above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters:
Howard Roarke, the genius who is resented because he creates purely
for the delight of his own work and on no other terms; Gail Wynand,
the newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire whose power was bought
by sacrificing his ideals to the lowest common denominator of public
taste; and Dominique Francon, the devastating beauty whose desperate
search for meaning has been twisted, through despair, into a quest to
destroy the single object of her desire: Howard Roarke.

Dramatic, poetic, and demanding, The Fountainhead remains one of the
towering books on the contemporary intellectual scene.



Review Quotes


themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil,
the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with




York Times Book Review
- See more at: http://www.blackstonelibrary.com/the-fountainhead#sthash.52w957K-
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