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We the Living by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Foreword
PART ONE
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VII
VIII
IX
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XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
PART TWO
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II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
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XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
Afterword
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Epigraph
Copyright Page
Introduction
Foreword
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
Teaser chapter
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Introduction
Part 1
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
Part 2
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III
IV
V
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VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
Part 3
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III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
Part 4
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II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
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XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
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AFTERWORD
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
PART I NON-CONTRADICTION
CHAPTER I THE THEME
CHAPTER II THE CHAIN
CHAPTER III THE TOP AND THE BOTTOM
CHAPTER IV THE IMMOVABLE MOVERS
CHAPTER V THE CLIMAX OF THE D'ANCONIAS
CHAPTER VI THE NON-COMMERCIAL
CHAPTER VII THE EXPLOITERS AND THE EXPLOITED
CHAPTER VIII THE JOHN GALT LINE
CHAPTER IX THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE
CHAPTER X WYATT'S TORCH
PART II EITHER-OR
CHAPTER I THE MAN WHO BELONGED ON EARTH
CHAPTER II THE ARISTOCRACY OF PULL
CHAPTER III WHITE BLACKMAIL
CHAPTER IV THE SANCTION OF THE VICTIM
CHAPTER V ACCOUNT OVERDRAWN
CHAPTER VI MIRACLE METAL
CHAPTER VII THE MORATORIUM ON BRAINS
CHAPTER VIII BY OUR LOVE
CHAPTER IX THE FACE WITHOUT PAIN OR FEAR OR GUILT
CHAPTER X THE SIGN OF THE DOLLAR
PART III A is A
CHAPTER I ATLANTIS
CHAPTER II THE UTOPIA OF GREED
CHAPTER III ANTI-GREED
CHAPTER IV ANTI-LIFE
CHAPTER V THEIR BROTHERS' KEEPERS
CHAPTER VI THE CONCERTO OF DELIVERANCE
CHAPTER VII "THIS IS JOHN GALT SPEAKING"
CHAPTER VIII THE EGOIST
CHAPTER IX THE GENERATOR
CHAPTER X IN THE NAME OF THE BEST AMONG US
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Night of January 16th by Ayn Rand
Night of January 16th
Introduction
Note to Producer
Characters, Time, Place
Act One
Act Two
Act Three
Back Cover
The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection From Her Unpublished Fiction by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction
Part I - THE TWENTIES
The Husband I Bought
The Night King
Good Copy
Escort
Her Second Career
Part II - THE EARLY THIRTIES
Red Pawn
We the Living (unpublished excerpts)
Ideal
Part III, - THE LATE THIRTIES
Think Twice
The Fountainhead (unpublished excerpts)
The Simplest Thing in the World
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
PREFACE
For the New Intellectual
We the Living
Anthem
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Chapter 1. - The Objectivist Ethics
Chapter 2. - Mental Health versus Mysticism and Self-Sacrifice
Chapter 3. - The Ethics of Emergencies
Chapter 4. - The “Conflicts” of Men’s Interests
Chapter 5. - Isn’t Everyone Selfish?
Chapter 6. - The Psychology of Pleasure
Chapter 7. - Doesn’t Life Require Compromise?
Chapter 8. - How Does One Lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society?
Chapter 9. - The Cult of Moral Grayness
Chapter 10. - Collectivized Ethics
Chapter 11. - The Monument Builders
Chapter 12. - Man’s Rights
Chapter 13. - Collectivized “Rights”
Chapter 14. - The Nature of Government
Chapter 15. - Government Financing in a Free Society
Chapter 16. - The Divine Right of Stagnation
Chapter 17. - Racism
Chapter 18. - Counterfeit Individualism
Chapter 19. - The Argument from Intimidation
INDEX
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Theory and History
1. WHAT IS CAPITALISM?
2. THE ROOTS OF WAR
3. AMERICA’S PERSECUTED MINORITY: BIG BUSINESS
4. ANTITRUST
5. COMMON FALLACIES ABOUT CAPITALISM
6. GOLD AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM
7. NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE
8. THE EFFECTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN
9. THE ASSAULT ON INTEGRITY
10. THE PROPERTY STATUS OF AIRWAVES
11. PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS
12. THEORY AND PRACTICE
13. LET US ALONE!
Current State
14. THE ANATOMY OF COMPROMISE
15. IS ATLAS SHRUGGING?
16. THE PULL PEDDLERS
17. “EXTREMISM,” OR THE ART OF SMEARING
18. THE OBLITERATION OF CAPITALISM
19. CONSERVATISM: AN OBITUARY
20. THE NEW FASCISM: RULE BY CONSENSUS
21. THE WRECKAGE OF THE CONSENSUS
22. THE CASHING-IN: THE STUDENT “REBELLION”
23. ALIENATION
24. REQUIEM FOR MAN
APPENDIX: MAN’S RIGHTS
APPENDIX: THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Chapter 1. - The Psycho-Epistemology of Art
Chapter 2. - Philosophy and Sense of Life
Chapter 3. - Art and Sense of Life
Chapter 4. - Art and Cognition
Chapter 5. - Basic Principles of Literature
Chapter 6. - What Is Romanticism?
Chapter 7. - The Esthetic Vacuum of Our Age
Chapter 8. - Bootleg Romanticism
Chapter 9. - Art and Moral Treason
Chapter 10. - Introduction to Ninety-Three
Chapter 11. - The Goal of My Writing
Chapter 12. - The Simplest Thing in the World
Index
Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Philosophy: Who Needs It
Chapter 2 - Philosophical Detection
Chapter 3 - The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made
Chapter 4 - The Missing Link
Chapter 5 - Selfishness Without a Self
Chapter 6 - An Open Letter to Boris Spassky
Chapter 7 - Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World
Chapter 8 - From the Horse’s Mouth
Chapter 9 - Kant Versus Sullivan
Chapter 10 - Causality Versus Duty
Chapter 11 - An Untitled Letter
Chapter 12 - Egalitarianism and Inflation
Chapter 13 - The Stimulus and the Response
Chapter 14 - The Establishing of an Establishment
Chapter 15 - Censorship: Local and Express
Chapter 16 - Fairness Doctrine for Education
Chapter 17 - What Can One Do?
Chapter 18 - Don’t Let It Go
Index
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism From a to Z by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Editor’s Preface
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
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J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
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The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Part One: - Philosophy
Chapter 1 - Introducing Objectivism
Chapter 2 - Review of Randall’s Aristotle
Chapter 3 - To Young Scientists
Chapter 4 - Who Is the Final Authority in Ethics?
Chapter 5 - The Psychology of Psychologizing
Chapter 6 - Altruism as Appeasement
Chapter 7 - The Question of Scholarships
Chapter 8 - Of Living Death
Chapter 9 - Religion Versus America
Part Two: - Culture
Chapter 10 - The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age
Chapter 11 - Our Cultural Value-Deprivation
Chapter 12 - Global Balkanization
Chapter 13 - How to Read (and Not to Write)
Chapter 14 - The Lessons of Vietnam
Chapter 15 - The Sanction of the Victims
Chapter 16 - Through Your Most Grievous Fault
Chapter 17 - Apollo 11
Chapter 18 - Epitaph for a Culture
Chapter 19 - Assault from the Ivory Tower: The Professors’ War Against America
Chapter 20 - The American School: Why Johnny Can’t Think
Part Three: - Politics
Chapter 21 - Representation Without Authorization
Chapter 22 - To Dream the Noncommercial Dream
Chapter 23 - Tax Credits for Education
Chapter 24 - Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason
Chapter 25 - The Pull Peddlers
Chapter 26 - About a Woman President
Chapter 27 - The Inverted Moral Priorities
Chapter 28 - Hunger and Freedom
Chapter 29 - How Not to Fight Against Socialized Medicine
Chapter 30 - Medicine: The Death of a Profession
Chapter 31 - Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty
EPILOGUE
Journals of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
EDITOR’S PREfACE
PART 1 - EARLY PROJECTS
Chapter 1 - THE HOLLYWOOD YEARS
Chapter 2 - WE THE LIVING
Chapter 3 - FIRST PHILOSOPHIC JOURNAL
PART 2 - THE FOUNTAINHEAD
Chapter 4 - THEME AND CHARACTERS
Chapter 5 - RCHITECTURAL RESEARCH
Chapter 6 - PLOT
Chapter 7 - NOTES WHILE WRITING
PART 3 - TRANSITION BETWEEN NOVELS
Chapter 8 - THE MORAL BASIS OF INDIVIDUALISM
Chapter 9 - TOP SECRET
Chapter 10 - COMMUNISM AND HUAC
PART 4 - ATLAS SHRUGGED
Chapter 11 - THE MIND ON STRIKE
Chapter 12 - FINAL PREPARATIONS
Chapter 13 - NOTES WHILE WRITING : 1941-1952
Chapter 14 - NOTES WHILE WRITING GALT’S SPEECH
PART 5 - FINAL YEARS
Chapter 15 - NOTES: 1955—1977
Chapter 16 - TWO POSSIBLE BOOKS
INDEX
Ayn Rand Reader by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
EDITOR’S PREFACE
PART ONE - The Fountainhead
Roark vs. Keating
The Quarry Sequence
The Stoddard Trial
PART TWO - Ethics
1. Selfishness
2. Anti-Altruism
3. Man, the Rational Animal
PART THREE - Atlas Shrugged
Rearden’s Anniversary Party
The John Galt Line
The Abandoned Factory
Directive 10-289
The Tunnel Disaster
Atlantis
PART FOUR - Basic Philosophy
1. Reason and Reality
2. Mind and Body
3. Theory of Concepts
PART FIVE - Early Novels and Politics
1. The Individual vs. the State
2. Capitalism vs. Collectivism
PART SIX - Romanticism and the Benevolent Universe
1. Romanticism
2. The Benevolent Universe
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Foreword
The Schools
The Cashing-In: The Student “Rebellion”
The Chickens’ Homecoming
The Comprachicos
The Culture
Apollo and Dionysus
The “Inexplicable Personal Alchemy”
The Age of Envy
THE POLITICS
The Left: Old and New
From a Symposium
“Political” Crimes
Racism
Global Balkanization
Gender Tribalism - Peter Schwartz
The Anti-Industrial Revolution
The Philosophy of Privation - Peter Schwartz
Multicultural Nihilism - Peter Schwartz
The Anti-Industrial Revolution
The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
EDITOR’S PREFACE
Chapter 1 - Writing and the Subconscious
Chapter 2 - Literature as an Art Form
Chapter 3 - Theme and Plot
Chapter 4 - The Plot-Theme
Chapter 5 - The Climax
Chapter 6 - How to Develop a Plot Ability
Chapter 7 - Characterization
Chapter 8 - Style I: Depictions of Love
Chapter 9 - Style II: Descriptions of Nature and of New York
Chapter 10 - Particular Issues of Style
Chapter 11 - Special Forms of Literature
INDEX
The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
EDITOR’S PREFACE
Chapter 1 - Preliminary Remarks
Chapter 2 - Choosing a Subject and Theme
Chapter 3 - Judging One’s Audience
Chapter 4 - Applying Philosophy Without Preaching It
Chapter 5 - Creating an Outline
Chapter 6 - Writing the Draft: The Primacy of the Subconscious
Chapter 7 - Editing
Chapter 8 - Style
Chapter 9 - Book Reviews and Introductions
Chapter 10 - Writing a Book
Chapter 11 - Selecting a Title
Chapter 12 - Acquiring Ideas for Writing
APPENDIX - Selected Outlines Used by Ayn Rand in Writing Articles
INDEX
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