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1) Ayn Rand
Author
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Ayn Rand.
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 174
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Atlas Shrugged, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After twelve years of suffering mysterious disappearances of society's most-productive individuals, the nation's economy is on the verge of collapse. As the government pursues policies imposing even greater brutality against those remaining, Dagny Taggart, Vice President of Taggart Transcontinental, must make a choice between saving the nation's collapsing infrestructure or the man she has come to love - the man who would stop the motor of the World....
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2016, and America is on the verge of economic disaster. The greatest citizens are being targeted, and dark forces are working to bring about America's final days. A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After writing a satirical novel that The New York Times calls classist, Anna is shunned by the literary establishment and, in her hurt, radicalized by the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Determined to follow Rand's theory of rational selfishness, Anna alienates herself from the scene and eventually her friends and family. Finally, in true Randian style, she abandons everyone for the boundless horizons of Los Angeles, hoping to make a TV show about her beloved...
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 169
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work The Fountainhead, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
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