We the Living (75th-Anniversary Edition)

By Ayn Rand | Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

About the book

Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.

First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.

We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb?

Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice. 

Includes an Introduction and Afterword by Ayn Rand’s Philosophical Heir, Leonard Peikoff

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Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.

First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.

We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb?

Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice. 

Includes an Introduction and Afterword by Ayn Rand’s Philosophical Heir, Leonard Peikoff

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Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.

First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.

We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb?

Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice. 

Includes an Introduction and Afterword by Ayn Rand’s Philosophical Heir, Leonard Peikoff

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in We the Living (75th-Anniversary Edition)?

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Who is/are the Author/s of the book We the Living (75th-Anniversary Edition)?

Ayn Rand

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Penguin Publishing Group

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We the Living (75th-Anniversary Edition) is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780525940548) and paperback(ISBN 9780451158604) and paperback(ISBN 9780451187840) and paperback(ISBN 9780451226853) and paperback(ISBN 9780451233264) and paperback(ISBN 9780451233592) and paperback(ISBN 9780451011367) and paperback(ISBN 9780451017352) and paperback(ISBN 9780451017918) and paperback(ISBN 9780451034113) and paperback(ISBN 9780451044402) and paperback(ISBN 9780451055613) and paperback(ISBN 9780451064943) and paperback(ISBN 9780451078445) and paperback(ISBN 9780451089984) and paperback(ISBN 9780451096470) and paperback(ISBN 9780451125811) and paperback(ISBN 9780451133182) and paperback(ISBN 9780451141460) and ebook(ISBN 9781101137666) and ebook(ISBN 9781101515983)

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