The fountainhead

The Fountainhead (1949)

Read 14.3k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's ground…

Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a visionary artist struggling against the dull, conformist dogma of his peers; a book of ambition, power, gold and love, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Architect Howard Roark is as unyielding as the granite he blasts to build with. Defying the conventions of the world around him, he embraces a battle over two decades against a double-dealing crew of rivals who…

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We, as a society, are merely comfortable with the things that are familiar to us and are often unwilling to accept change. The Fountainhead does an incredible job of forcing us to re-evaluate our thought processes and open ourselves up

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Rand's most famous novel launched the popular and controversial philosophy of Objectivism.

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