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300033023. The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles against conventional standards and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
3.6. The Fountainhead Review. ‘The Fountainhead’ transports readers to a world of architectural grandeur and moral turmoil with its rich imagery, engrossing symbolism, and intellectual depth. Rand presents a captivating examination of individualism, honesty, and the fight for creative freedom through her incisive prose and persuasive rhetoric.
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The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. In early 1922, Howard Roark is expelled from the architecture department of the Stanton Institute of Technology because he has not adhered to the school's preference for historical convention in building design.
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Ayn Rand was a Russian emigre, who was a philosopher and a writer, best known for her work, ‘The Fountainhead’ which was published in 1943. The protagonist of her first major hit, which embodies Ayn Rand’s theories on the individual’s struggle against society, is an architect. The book rejects empathy and sympathy and supports using ...
Nov 2, 2011 · Ayn Rand showed in the Living (Macmillan, 1936) an ability to handle groups of people and shifting impacts convincingly, with implicit drama. She has told this time the story of an idealistic young architect, who refused to compromise with popular taste or accepted practice, who starved in the process, but who finally won through to success, as ...
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The Fountainhead Full Book Summary. Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect, is expelled from his architecture school for refusing to follow the school’s outdated traditions. He goes to New York to work for Henry Cameron, a disgraced architect whom Roark admires. Roark’s schoolmate, Peter Keating, moves to New York and goes to work for ...
ARI Campus The Fountainhead Lexicon Second-Handers. “ The Fountainhead ,” wrote Ayn Rand, “started in my mind as a definition of a new code of ethics — the morality of individualism. The idea of individualism is not new, but nobody had defined a consistent and specific way to live by it in practice. It is in their statements on morality ...
