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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 53
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The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of...
Pub. Date
2013, c1941
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A middle-aged playboy, Frank Flannagan, who is smitten by Ariane, the daughter of a detective hired by a man who believes Frank is having an affair with his wife.
Friendly Persuasion: A heart-warming story about the day-to-day experiences of a Quaker family living in Indiana in 1862, showing their religious beliefs, their worldly temptations, their petty feuds, and their reactions in a time of crisis.
The Fountainhead: An architect unwilling to...
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Pub. Date
1949
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Howard Roark stands alone. Rather than kowtow to bosses, the idealistic architect takes a job busting quarry rock. Rather than permit the construction of a dreatically altered housing project he designed, he blasts the sitet to kingdom come. And brought to trial he accepts no defense but his own. The Fountainhead is towering tribute to everyone willing to stand by what's right, no matter what the cost.
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