Ayn Rand Box Set: Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead

By Ayn Rand

Book Overview

Two Ayn Rand classics--Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead--together for the first time in a boxed set.

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most--and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor--and the motive power of every man?

The Fountainhead is the revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451947673
• ISBN13: 9780451947673
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 1738 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.2" x 4.3" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Cheap edition, badly made

This review is about this edition, not the books as such. First, it isn't paperback -- it is mass market. I've read newspapers printed on better paper. Second, the print is tiny. Overall, a very low-quality edition, not a real boxed-set.

Good combination

Atlas Shrugged In case this is your first encounter with this book, it is a fresh story, but a continuation of Ayn Rand’s philosophy that started with books like “We the Living,” where she knew something was wrong but could not put her finger on it. She progressed to books such as “The Fountainhead,” where she could describe the problem quite well. Now in “Atlas Shrugged," she has come up with a plausible answer to the problem. In essence, your head can work without your hands, yet your hands cannot work without your head. I can tell you about my experience with the book. Normally, my reviews are flippant, and I include nothing personal. I must have been a late bloomer or just unlucky because I did not come across "Atlas Shrugged" until I was 20 years old. I was in the military and needed some reading material. My younger sister sent me the book. It looks just a little thick to me, but I started reading, and reading and reading. I do not know if it was the story or the clarity of thought. Now I saw everything in a new or different light. It felt weird to see the newspapers and politics paralleling the book. I was in New York (West Point) at the time, and three things stood out to this day. There was a public service announcement on the TV: "The law says that an apartment owner can not charge more than 30% of what you make," and at the same time, the apartment buildings were closing down. The postal carriers went on strike, and the military had to deliver the mail. That winter, the snowplow drivers went on strike. When the strike was over, the snowplows were missing. They found them the next summer in an empty lot. There is nothing quite as convincing as watching the world and the book parallel. I have mellowed out some since then. However, I think that this book should be read in high school, where it would have the maximum impact on one's train of thought. ------------------------------------------------------------ The Fountainhead I have read the book, seen the movie (1949 Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, and Raymond Massey), and listened to the audiocassettes. Each medium gives a different feel to her story and brings out the underlying message in different ways. If this is your first Ayn Rand book, then either you are in high school (where they think this is the pinnacle of her work) or you started in the middle of her forming. In other books as "We the Living", she knew something was wrong but did not know what it was. In "The Fountainhead", she puts her finger on the symptoms and rebels against them. In "Atlas Shrugged", she finally identifies the source of the problem, and even if it seems like a surrealistic story, she offers concrete solutions. Out of this process, Objectivism was born.

I love Ayn Ra.d

One of the greatest writers in recent history telling badass stories about the human spirit