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The Fountainhead

Written by: Ayn Rand
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
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 One of the 20th century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters: Howard Roarke, the genius who is resented because he creates purely for the delight of his own work and on no other terms; Gail Wynand, the newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire whose power was bought by sacrificing his ideals to the lowest common denominator of public taste; and Dominique Francon, the devastating beauty whose desperate search for meaning has been twisted, through despair, into a quest to destroy the single object of her desire: Howard Roarke. Dramatic, poetic, and demanding, The Fountainhead remains one of the towering books on the contemporary intellectual scene.©1943 The Bobbs-Merrill Company; 1968 Ayn Rand; 1993 Leonard Peikoff (P)1994 Blackstone Audio Inc. Classics

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"Ayn Rand is a writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly." ( New York Times Book Review)
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Even though the story is long Christopher Hurt's narration helped me imagine every character distinctly. Great narration.

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I head read the book in my teens, the time when communism and existentialism was the trend as a life philosophy. This book was a trail blazer which denounced these philosophies. Glory to the individual. Now as an audio book I revisited. I found there is still some magic even after four decades. I would give 5 stars to the narrator, bringing back the magic I felt when reading.

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absolutely wonderful. the characterization is so well done and and it simply draws the character in front of your eyes. story progresses as if you are at those places at every stage and witnessing the story. awesome oration also. voice modulation changes so effectively for each person. very soon you will know whose dialogue is it just by hearing it.

what a book

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I read it first when I was 20 year old and chose to hear its audio book after 20 years.
A must read/heard if you want to widen your thoughts from the altruistic way of life and trying to mold yourself to the way 'Others feel right of you'

This book widened my thinking

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narrator made ayn rand come to life as if playing a video right infront.
men will hate u if want to respect urself, the book is bound to push u to condemn a Life of second hander and seek the original u

a new life

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