The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition HC) Plus SIGNED MOVIE CAST ITEMS

Rand, Ayn

ISBN 10: 0452286751 / ISBN 13: 9780452286757

Published by Plume, U.S.A., 2005

About this Item

1st Edition/1st Printing Thus- Centennial Edition (May 2005- complete number line). Attached to front end page is a card SIGNED by RAYMOND MASSEY (played 'Gail Wynand ' in the 1949 King Vidor classic flim of novel). Also attached to front end page is a card SIGNED by PATRICIA NEAL (played 'Dominique Francon' in the film); and a card SIGNED by famed director KING VIDOR (the film's director). Remanser mark on bottom. $39.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Afterwod by Leonard Peikoff. 734 pages. (PLUS: Also comes with a unsigned hardcover copy of 60th Anniversary Edition of "We The Living") Unique package for the Rand--Fountainhead fan or collector. Note: No International orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 048397

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition HC) ...

Publisher: Plume, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: CAST-SIGNATURE(S)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

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

Review:

The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence.