- Fiction, Individuality, Time travel in fiction, Individuality in fiction
Anthem is a tale of a future dark age of the great “we” – a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values.
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Grave, earnest, resolved and intimate.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- First published
- 1936
- Pages
- 84
- Publisher
- Tribeca Books, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 306
- Language
- English, German, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781545541517
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“IT IS A SIN TO WRITE THIS.”
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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