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The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

2000 ·
·4.01·654 Ratings ·192 Pages
“ Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. ” ― Norman Cousins
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  • Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

    1990·
    ·4.01·1,565 Ratings
    Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that torrent of nihilism, and she provides the altern
  • The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

    1990·
    ·4.13·711 Ratings
    Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe
  • The Journals of Ayn Rand

    1999·
    ·3.96·299 Ratings
    Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From Journals of Ayn Rand, we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosopher, an
  • The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction

    1986·
    ·3.78·805 Ratings
    This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction-including her previously unpublished short story The Night King-ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead.
  • Ayn Rand Reader

    1999·
    ·3.58·170 Ratings
    The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she ex
  • Ominous Parallels

    1983·
    ·4.15·485 Ratings
    Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same r
  • The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out

    2012·
    ·4.32·242 Ratings
    With his groundbreaking and controversial DIM hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought, and thereby on Western culture and history. In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods peop
  • The Cause of Hitler's Germany

    2014·
    ·4.4·30 Ratings
    "A truly revolutionary idea... Clear, tight, disciplined, beautifully structured, and brilliantly reasoned."--Ayn RandSelf-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial "truth," the public good, doing one's duty--these are among the seductive catchphrases that ci
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