The first literary work of one of the most influential philosophers andnovelists of the twentieth centuryaavailable for the first time in tradepaperback. Ayn Ra... » 

The first literary work of one of the most influential philosophers andnovelists of the twentieth centuryaavailable for the first time in tradepaperback. Ayn Rand wrote of her first novel We the Living aIt is as nearto an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is invented the backgroundis notaThe specific events of Kiraas life were not mine her ideas herconvictions her values were and are.a We the Living depicts the struggle ofthe individual against the state and the impact of the Russian Revolution onthree human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursuetheir own happiness. It tells of a young womanas passionate love held like afortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state. This classicnovel is not a story of politics but of the men and women who have to strugglefor existence behind the banners and slogans. «