num_pages: 704
description: When it was first published in 1943, The Fountainhead, 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. For this fiftieth anniversary edition Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, has written a special Afterword that 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.Description from back cover
language: English
title: The Fountainhead
titlecomplete: The Fountainhead
characters: Peter Keating, Howard Roark, Dominique Francon, Ellsworth Toohey
genres: Fiction, Classics, Politics, Philosophy, Classic Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Literature, Architecture, Novels
ratings_count: 319117
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Signet