Ayn Rand For Beginners

Author : Andrew Bernstein
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781934389713

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Ayn Rand For Beginners by Andrew Bernstein Pdf

Ayn Rand, author of the best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, is beloved by millions of readers, and equally despised by a significant number of detractors. Her novels and her revolutionary philosophy of Objectivism have acquired a world-wide following. They have also created legions of readers who are hungry for a deeper understanding of her writings. Despite her undeniably significant contributions to the literary canon and the progression of philosophy, there has been no simple, comprehensive introduction to Rand’s books and ideas, until now. Ayn Rand For Beginners sheds new light on Rand’s monumental works and robust philosophy. In clear, down-to-earth language, it explains Rand to a new generation of readers in a manner that is entertaining, and easy to read and comprehend.

Author : Andrew Bernstein
Publisher : For Beginners (For Beginners)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1934389374

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Ayn Rand for Beginners by Andrew Bernstein Pdf

Ayn Rand, author of The Fountainhead (Penguin Classics, 2007) and Atlas Shrugged (Penguin Classics, 2007), is beloved by millions of readers. Her writings and her revolutionary philosophy of Objectivism have acquired a massive following. However, until now there has been no introductory text to her work. This guide offers readers a comprehensive insight in clear, down-to-earth language. Suitable for long-time fans and new readers, it illuminates the depth and richness of her compelling stories and her ideas about human nature and society.

Author : Ayn Rand,Leonard Peikoff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101137215

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The Journals of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand,Leonard Peikoff Pdf

Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From Journals of Ayn Rand, we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosopher, and of the enduring legacy she has left us.Rand comes vibrantly to life as an untried screenwriter in Hollywood, creating stories that reflect her youthful vision of the world. We see her painful memories of communist Russia and her struggles to convey them in We the Living. Most fascinating is the intricate, step-by-step process through which she created the plots and characters of her two masterworks, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and the years of painstaking research that imbued the novels with their powerful authenticity. Complete with reflections on her legendary screenplay concerning the making of the atomic bomb and tantalizing descriptions of projects cut short by her death, Journals of Ayn Rand illuminates the mind and heart of an extraordinary woman as no biography or memoir ever could. On these vivid pages, Ayn Rand lives.

Author : Andrew Bernstein
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761843603

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Objectivism in One Lesson by Andrew Bernstein Pdf

For the millions of readers who love Ayn Rand's novels and who seek to understand her revolutionary philosophy of Objectivism, there has not been available a simple and concise introduction to her thought. Objectivism in One Lesson is that book. In layman's terms, using vivid examples, Andrew Bernstein clearly explains the brilliant ideas that animate the conflict and characters of Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. This is the definitive introductory text to the rational philosophy that will transform the world.

Author : Scott McConnell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101477892

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100 Voices by Scott McConnell Pdf

An extensive collection of never-before-published interviews reflecting on Ayn Rand's life and character. Drawing on 100 never-before-published interviews, Scott McConnell presents a unique portrait of a larger-than-life literary giant and a fascinating individual, Ayn Rand. Focusing on the private Rand, McConnell talked to the author's family, friends, fans, and associates, as well as Hollywood stars, university professors, fiction writers, and many more. Arranged in chronological order, these interviews cover a broad range of years, contexts, relationships, and observations on one of the most influential- and controversial-figures of the twentieth century. From Ayn Rand's youngest sister to the woman who inspired the character of Peter Keating in The Fountainhead, the subjects interviewed offer fresh, sometimes surprisingly candid, affectionate, and intriguing insights into a complex and remarkable writer, philosopher, and human being.

Author : Nathaniel Branden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Objectivism (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0981953611

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The Vision of Ayn Rand by Nathaniel Branden Pdf

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101137666

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We the Living by Ayn Rand Pdf

Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia. First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state. We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb? Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice. Includes an Introduction and Afterword by Ayn Rand’s Philosophical Heir, Leonard Peikoff

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101137673

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The Early Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand Pdf

This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction—including her previously unpublished short story The Night King—ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead.

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143194620

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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Pdf

When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special afterword by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand’s own notes on the making of The Fountainhead. As fresh today as it was then, here is a novel about a hero—and about those who try to destroy him.

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101137253

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Ayn Rand Reader by Ayn Rand Pdf

The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume.Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.

Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726416770

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On Judgment Day by Hans Christian Andersen Pdf

The supreme day is the holiest day. It is when we are near death and we must face what we have done with our life. The noblest face it without fear, others tremble. However, when it comes, we still have much to learn about life. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Match Girl". His books have been translated into every living language, and today there is no child or adult that has not met Andersen's whimsical characters. His fairy tales have been adapted to stage and screen countless times, most notably by Disney with the animated films "The Little Mermaid" in 1989 and "Frozen", which is loosely based on "The Snow Queen", in 2013. Thanks to Andersen's contribution to children's literature, his birth date, April 2, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day.

Author : Anne C. Heller
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385529464

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Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller Pdf

Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and influenced White House economic policies throughout the Reagan years and beyond. A passionate advocate of laissez-faire capitalism and individual rights, Rand remains a powerful force in the political perceptions of Americans today. Yet twenty-five years after her death, her readers know little about her life.In this seminal biography, Anne C. Heller traces the controversial author’s life from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout, Heller reveals previously unknown facts about Rand’s history and looks at Rand with new research and a fresh perspective. Based on original research in Russia, dozens of interviews with Rand’s acquaintances and former acolytes, and previously unexamined archives of tapes and letters, AYN RAND AND THE WORLD SHE MADE is a comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century.

Author : Marlene Podritske,Peter Schwartz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739131947

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Objectively Speaking by Marlene Podritske,Peter Schwartz Pdf

Readers and students of Ayn Rand will value seeing in this collection of interviews how Ayn Rand applied her philosophy and moral principles to the issues of the day. Objectively Speaking includes half a century of print and broadcast interviews drawn from the Ayn Rand Archives. The thirty-two interviews in this collection, edited by Marlene Podritske and Peter Schwartz, include print interviews from the 1930s and edited transcripts of radio and television interviews from the 1940s through 1981. Selections are included from a remarkable series of radio broadcasts over a four-year period (1962-1966) on Columbia University's station WKCR in New York City and syndicated throughout the United States and Canada. Ayn Rand's unusual and strikingly original insights on a vast range of topics are captured by prominent interviewers in the history of American television broadcasting, such as Johnny Carson, Edwin Newman, Mike Wallace, and Louis Rukeyser. The collection concludes with an interview of Dr. Leonard Peikoff on his radio program in 1999, recalling his 30-year personal and professional association with Ayn Rand and discussing her unique intellectual and literary achievements. Ayn Rand is the best-selling author of Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, and We the Living. Fifty years or more after publication, sales of these novels continue to increase.

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101137260

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The Voice of Reason by Ayn Rand Pdf

Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces, written in the last decades of Rand's life, are gathered in book form for the first time. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoff's epilogue, "My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir," which answers the question "What was Ayn Rand really like?" Important reading for all thinking individuals, Rand's later writings reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. This collection communicates not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise.

Author : Leonard Peikoff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101577332

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Understanding Objectivism by Leonard Peikoff Pdf

Based on a series of lectures given in 1983 by Dr. Leonard Peikoff, Understanding Objectivism offers a deeper and more profound study of Ayn Rand's philosophy, and outlines a methodology of how to approach the study of Objectivism and apply its principles to one's life. For the legions of readers who treasure Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, and who savor cogent analysis and provocative discussion of Ayn Rand's thoughts and beliefs, Understanding Objectivism takes the stimulating study of Rand's philosophy to the next level.