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1 - Philosophy: who needs it
Ayn Rand
The Ayn Rand Library [1]: This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is n...
2 - The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction
Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff
The Ayn Rand Library [2]: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth, this newly revised collection of her early fiction ranges from works written from 1926 through 1940, and includes her previously unpublished short story, "The Nigh...
2 - For the new intellectual: the philosophy of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
The Ayn Rand Library [2]: This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial ...
3 - Anthem
Ayn Rand
The Ayn Rand Library [3]: The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year. Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future dark age of the great ?We??a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values?anticipates her later masterpieces, The Foun...
4 - We the Living
Ayn Rand
The Ayn Rand Library [4]: EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The first literary work of one of the most influential philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century-available for the first time in trade paperback.** Ayn Rand wrote of her first novel, *We th...
5 - Capitalism: the unknown ideal
Ayn Rand
The Ayn Rand Library [5]: As an interesting relic of the past, this outlandish piece of propaganda is worth the listener's time, even though the author's overconfident sense of her own rightness and persistence at pressing her points with little resp...
6 - The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
The Ayn Rand Library [6]: EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Rand’s centennial.** When it was first published in 1943, *The Fountainhead*--containing Ayn Rand’s daringly original literary vision with the see...
7 - The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism
Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden
The Ayn Rand Library [7]: Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature,...
8 - Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
The Ayn Rand Library [8]: Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. It was Rand's fourth, longest and last novel, and she considered it her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing.[1] As indicated by its...