The Fountainhead

Author(s): Ayn Rand

Warwick's top 5 of all time books

One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters: Howard Roarke, the genius who is resented because he creates purely for the delight of his own work and on no other terms; Gail Wynand, the newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire whose power was bought by sacrificing his ideals to the lowest common denominator of public taste; and Dominique Francon, the devastating beauty whose desperate search for meaning has been twisted, through despair, into a quest to destroy the single object of her desire: Howard Roarke. Dramatic, poetic, and demanding, The Fountainhead remains one of the towering books on the contemporary intellectual scene.

General Information

  • : 9780141188621
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin
  • : 0.514
  • : March 2007
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 31mm
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Ayn Rand
  • : English
  • : good-very good
  • : 752