The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead

By Ayn Rand

  • Release Date: 2004-12-28
  • Genre: Classics
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 882 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.

This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...

“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.”—The New York Times

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Latest Impressions

  • A work of art

    5
    By Flozzle
    Now more than ever people should read or reread this book. Maybe it will help make America great again
  • The Standard

    5
    By neofelis723
    80 years after its publication and it still is the standard for the individual vs the collective. All the collectivist catch phrases are still used to this day in government, in churches, and organizations that seek to gain some form of value from some else’s effort.
  • The classic line

    5
    By _tokeyP
    Life changing, simply put.
  • Decent book.

    3
    By archilny
    Similar to atlas shrugged, the ideas in the book are pretty interesting and refreshing. The book is poorly edited, which is also an issue with atlas shrugged. The characters in the book are pretty exaggerated and so is the plot. Ok read overall.
  • Incomplete book

    5
    By Milla Dresner
    Incomplete book - only the first few chapters are included in this version
  • Facts

    5
    By IGrayScaleI
    Best book ever written
  • Capitalist propaganda garbage

    1
    By kkbubblegum
    I said what I said
  • Awesome

    5
    By Lear M.
    A book that should be revisited throughout life. Such a great motivator for the creators and the producers of the world we live in. It takes courage to be independent and it is worth the struggle. We need more Howard Roark’s in society today.
  • The Fountainhead

    5
    By OpsChief17
    Any Rands relevance today through the Fountainhead is far more than a story of her time. Her book, The Fountainhead, truly describes much of what is happening with the new technologies, computers, electronics,etc., world, and I think, the “new” political environment being forced upon the public by the extreme left. This book is without a doubt one of the most relevant of today. Being “politically correct” is among the worst “second-hander” philosophies being foisted upon society. It is an element that has created fear to speak openly and fostered exactly the themes presented in ‘The Fountainhead’. The next step, if society will be ‘1984’, which seems to be just around the corner. One of the most illuminating books I’ve ever read.
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