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The Fountainhead | [Ayn Rand]
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The Fountainhead

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  • by Ayn Rand
  • Narrated by Edward Herrmann
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  • LENGTH
    8 hrs and 27 mins
  • RELEASE DATE
    11/04/2006
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The Fountainhead studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism. Rand's hero is Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect who won't compromise his integrity, especially in the unconventional buildings he designs. Roark is engaged in ideological warfare with a society that despises him, an architectural community that doesn't understand him, and a woman who loves him but wants to destroy him. His struggle raises questions about society's attitude toward revolutionaries. Since this book's publication in 1943, Rand's controversial ideas have made her one of the best-selling authors of all time.

©1943 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, renewed ©1971 Ayn Rand; (P)1994 Penguin-HighBridge Audio

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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." (The New York Times)

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  • Mexico, Mexico
    08/04/13
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    "Short Version"

    This is a shortened version from the orginal 700+ pages-long book, so it isn't useful when trying to read the book while reading it ate the same time. Listening to the audiobook while reading the actual book helps me read faster as I go along with the audiobook's speed, and if playing on an iPod (and maybe on iTunes, I haven't tried), you can set the velocity of the audiobook faster or slower, which helps improve either your understandng of the story or your reading pace.
    This audiobook file, although it isn't bad, it is not what I was expecting. At any moment before using my initial credit, did I know this was not what I was looking for as it was never specified to be a summarised version, and so I had to spend an extra credit on buying the complete file, which I thought at first was just another version, but now I know the difference was the other file, was the complete version and this just a shortened one which was no use.

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  • London, United Kingdom
    24/12/12
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    "Good but I should have waited"

    I guess this is always the fear when you buy an old abridged novel, that the unabridged version is just around the corner - sure enough this is the .



    As with Atlas Shrugged the reader does get bashed by the message but what did you expect.



    While I don't agree with Rand, or Objectivism totally, she sure makes you think.



    Buy the unabridged version.

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