![]() This seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Anthem, celebrating the controversial and enduring legacy of its author, features an introduction by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Piekoff, which includes excerpts from documents by Ayn Rand-letters, interviews, and journal notes in which she discusses Anthem. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: standing out from the mindless human herd. Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a dystopian future of the great “We”-a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence-anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. ![]() But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. In a loveless world, he dared to fall in love. ![]() “My happiness is not the means to any end. ![]()
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