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We the living / Ayn Rand ; with an introduction and an afterword by Leonard Peikoff.
First published in 1936, this novel has as its theme the struggle of the individual against the state. It portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who assert the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman's passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state, which demands from is citizens not independence but self-sacrifice.--Publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780451233592
- ISBN: 978045123427 (student ed.)
- Physical Description: xiii, 511 p. ; 18 cm.
- Edition: 75th Anniversary ed.
- Publisher: New York : Signet, 2011, c1959.
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| Subject: | Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921 > Fiction. Totalitariansim > Fiction. Socialism > Fiction. Communism > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Salmo Public Library | PBK FIC RAN (Text) | 35163000189154 | Paperback Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Penguin Putnam
Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.
First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young womanâs passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.
We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb?
Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice.Â
Includes an Introduction and Afterword by Ayn Randâs Philosophical Heir, Leonard Peikoff - Random House, Inc.
We the Living depicts the struggle of the individual against the state, and the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. This classic novel is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who fight for existence within a totalitarian state.
