description: One of the 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 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 Howard Roarke. Dramatic, poetic, and demanding, The Fountainhead remains one of the towering books on the contemporary intellectual scene.
language: English
title: The Fountainhead
titlecomplete: The Fountainhead
characters: Dominique Francon, Peter Keating, Howard Roark, Ellsworth Toohey
genres: Fiction, American, Politics, Philosophy, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Architecture, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 319196
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks