The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand [1986 CENTENNIAL EDITION]

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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

SPECIAL EDITION [1986] MACMILLAN PUBLISHING

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Like new w. some very minor wear. 


This centennial edition of "The Fountainhead," celebrating the controversial and enduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Rand's personal notes on the development of her masterwork, and a Reader's Guide to her writings and philosophy.  Includes intro by the author. 


This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...