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The Fountainhead

By: Ayn Rand
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
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 One of the 20th century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead 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.©1943 The Bobbs-Merrill Company; 1968 Ayn Rand; 1993 Leonard Peikoff (P)1994 Blackstone Audio Inc. Classics Thought-Provoking Inspiring

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"Ayn Rand is a writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly." ( New York Times Book Review)
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Makes you re-evaluate your entire existence. A must listen for every individual. Expertly performed.

Life-changing

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Beautifully written prose, coupled with deep insight. The ideas found within will no doubt challenge; but nothing important comes easy.

More important now than ever

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the characters are unique, distinct and grey in thier behaviour, the plot and storyline makes it highly engaging read or listen..enjoyed it throughly

highly engaging narration & storyline

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Original and unbelievablely insightful depiction of a true hero. Thank you Ayn Rand for this magnificent work.

Amazing

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the fountainhead will challenge what you think makes you move it is a transformative book

will challenge you

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First off all the narrator's performance was seriously good, so much that I believe he himself must absolutely have loved this amazing story of the battle between good and evil. The struggle of good people in an amazing world but against awfully small people. We all have to suffer our contemporaries. I wished this book was read by every twenty year old.

Outstanding in every way.

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I loved this book in the Audible version. Sun Rand was ahead of her time and close to George Orwell in class. Pity she is not here to carry on the fight in this blighted age of the rule of academia and the public servant

Excellent, narrator first class

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Such a liberating read !!! I need to read it a few more times to truly start to grasp it all

Thought provoking !!!

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Predictive narrative with a an informative perspective of the leanings of mankind offering a sound adversity.

The conditioning of humanity

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An epic, thought provoking story by an unusually talented author with a matching performance by the reader. I am sad that it’s over…

Epic

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