Anthem
By: With an Introduction by Leonard Peikoff
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780141189611
Copyright date: 1995
Description: Equality 7-2521 is a man apart. Since The Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet since his childhood in the Home of the Infants, Equality 7-2521 has felt that he is different. When he is sent by The Council of Vocations to work as a road sweeper, he stumbles upon a link to the old world that gives him the spur to break free. First published in England in 1938, Ayn Rand's short dystopian novel crystalizes the ideas of individualism and competition that would make her name world famous.