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Anthem

by Ayn Rand
Andrew Garman
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Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dystopian future of the great "We"-a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence-that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. They existed only to serve the state. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. They died in the Home of the Useless. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one-the great WE. In all that was left of humanity there was only one man who dared to think, seek, and love. He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world, he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: He had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone. He had rediscovered the lost and holy word-I. "I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities."-Ayn Rand

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  • Release date

    August 1, 2017

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781501965791
      • File size: 60985 KB
      • Duration: 02:07:03

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 880
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Ayn Rand's Anthem is a short dystopic novel about a man who escapes a society from which all individuality has been squeezed. Its allegory is crudely transparent, and the ideas have lost their political urgency. (The book was published in 1938, a decade before Orwell's 1984.) But Anthem provides a good introduction to Rand's philosophy of "objectivism," which is built on individuality, freedom, and reason. Paul Meier is an excellent choice for the novel's first-person narrator--he manages to maintain an urgency in his voice, pleading but never whining, mirroring the main character's struggle against his totalitarian world. D.B. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Renowned writer Ayn Rand presents this early novella, which tackles subjects that dominate her later works and offers her unique ideology on government, as well as society and humankind as a whole. Though Rand's novella is certainly more of a straightforward narrative than much of her later work, narrator Cary Alan still must cut through the exposition to relate the story in its rawest form. Alan's voice is slightly monotone, but it does change slightly to suggest the characters' underlying emotions. Ultimately, the message overrides the medium of this story, and Rand's prose is the true star while Alan's delivery serves to ensure a solid understanding of her ideas. L.B. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:880
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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