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MODERN CLASSICS ANTHEM

Ayn Rand - Author
Leonard Peikoff - Introduction by
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Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 112 pages | ISBN 9780141189611 | 28 Oct 2008 | Penguin Classics
MODERN CLASSICS ANTHEM

First Modern Classics edition of Ayn Rand’s classic dystopian novella. First published in England in 1938, Ayn Rand’s short dystopian novel crystalizes the ideas of individualism and competition that would make her name.

Equality 7-2521 is a man apart. Since The Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet since his childhood in the Home of the Infants, Equality 7-2521 has felt that he is different. When he is sent by The Council of Vocations to work as a road sweeper, he stumbles upon a link to the old world that gives him the spur to break free.