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- Includes summary and evaluation of The Fountainhead's plot, people, and main styles.
- Includes a brief introduction about the life span and political philosophy of Ayn Rand
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"The booklet is the storyplot of Howard Roark's triumph. It must show what the man is, what he wishes and how he gets it. It needs to be a triumphant epic of man's spirit, a hymn glorifying a man's 'I.' It must show every conceivable hardship and obstacle on his way - and how he triumphs over them, why he must triumph." (Ayn Rand,
The Diaries of Ayn Rand) Few books have raised the type of controversy and critical discourse that Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead has. Since its publication in 1943, Rand's booklet has been admired and exalted as much as it's been dismissed and ridiculed. They have produced a veritable cult of diehard followers, with the booklet having sold more than six million copies in multiple languages, while some have subjected it to severe, unyielding criticism. American philosopher Allan Bloom tagged it "hardly literature", while Canadian philosopher Symbol Kingwell called it, "Rand's best work, which is not to say it is good." Whatever the reward and criticism, only a booklet of importance may have kept the public interest ignited so many years after it first surfaced, lending credence to its impact on international pop culture and politics if not the literary panorama. Moreover, its charm may have just as much to do with its controversial writer as does the booklet itself.