The fountainhead
(2005, original release: 1943)
By:
Rand, Ayn
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/RAND,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Plume, 2005
EDITION
Centennial edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 734 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780452286757, 0452286751, 9780452286757, 0452286379, 9780452286375, 0452273331, 9780452273337
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1943
Peter Keating -- Ellsworth M. Toohey -- Gail Wynand -- Howard Roark
Here is the story of an intransigent young architect, Howard Roark, of his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who worships him yet struggles to defeat him. In order to build his kind of buildings according to his own standards, Roark must fight against every variant of human corruption
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