A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Randas centennial. When it was first published in 1943, "The Fountainhead"--containing Ayn Randas daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivismawon immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial edition of "The Fountainhead," celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Randas literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Randas personal notes on the development of her masterwork. aA writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.a --"The New York Times"

Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.