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Spare, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Ayn Rand
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- World Pub. Co., Dutton Adult, Signet
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780451123749
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“THE position of art in the scale of human knowledge is, perhaps, the most eloquent symptom of the gulf between man's progress in the physical sciences and his stagnation (or, today, his retrogression) in the humanities.”
Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;[a] February 2, [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/aɪn/), was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She wrote a play that opened on Broadway in 1935. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, until her death in 1982, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her
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