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Anthem - A Dystopian Novella of Individualism, Freedom, and Rebellion: A Dystopian Novella of Individualism, Freedom, and Rebellion
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ISBN13: 9781604594058
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Jun 20 2008
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Anthem is Ayn Rand's stark dystopian novella of identity, freedom, and rebellion against enforced collectivism. In a future society where the word I has vanished and individuality is treated as a crime, one man begins to recover the forbidden meaning of selfhood. Known only as Equality 7-2521, he lives under a system that demands obedience, sameness, and submission to the group, but his discovery of knowledge, love, and independent thought leads him toward a dangerous act of defiance.
First published in 1938, Anthem is among Rand's most concise and accessible works, presenting in compressed fictional form many of the themes that would later define her larger novels and philosophy: individual rights, reason, creativity, personal identity, and resistance to collectivist authority. At once a dystopian fable, a philosophical novella, and a story of awakening, Anthem remains a significant text for readers of classic dystopian fiction, political fiction, twentieth-century literature, libertarian thought, and novels of ideas.
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