Tell a friend about this book...
Friend's Email:
Subject: I have found a book that I think you would enjoy
Member $avings: $16,107,935.44
|
Books Available: 4,139,757
|
Members Online: 1,020
Your source for swapping books online - Read...Swap...Save!
How To Swap Books?
Sign Up
Search 
Kiosk
All Books
Book Browser
Advanced Search
Books Posted Today
Member Book Reviews
NYT Best Seller List
Newbery Medal Winners
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Most Traveled Copies
Club Wish List
Login
Community
Member Directory
Discussion Forums
Blog
Donations
Live Chat (1)
Box-O-Books
Book Journal
Maps
The Eclectic Pen
Fun Stuff
Top 50s
Pulse of PBS
Spread The Word
Photo Gallery
Recipes
Club Tag Cloud
Member Testimonials
Help Center
Kiosk
Need Help?
Search - Anthem
|
Anthem Author: |
|
|||
Book Information
|
|||||
Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged)
Book Description:
This provocative book is "an anthem sung in praise of man's ego" from the legendary author Ayn Rand
Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in him -- a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd--to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin. In a world where the great "we" reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word -- "I."
Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in him -- a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd--to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin. In a world where the great "we" reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word -- "I."
Members who requested this book also requested:
Similar books to this author and title:
 |
Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( R ) >> Rand, Ayn >> Paperback
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( R ) >> Rand, Ayn >> General
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Classics
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Classics >> Rand, Ayn
Top Member Book Reviews
Sheila A. (
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is another one of those books that I read a long time ago, but that stays in my mind. To me, that is the mark of a truly good book. The negative utopia as seen in this book is only a short distance away if we don't learn that government is here to work for us, and not that we are here to work for the government. Like 1984, this book shows what can happen to a society that gets too dependent on its government. You lose your identity and all that is dear to you. Although it is a very small book, there is a lot of meat in those few pages. I would argue that this tiny novel has as much to contribute as Ayn Rand's other famous (and gigantic) work, The Fountainhead.
Tish O. (
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
WOW...it has been years since i have read this book but it will leave you breathless like all of her other books.
it is a story of a man's escape from a society that has become homoginized. a great read
Liese S. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Is this Ayn Rand's shortest book? No, that was We the Living. This is a good one--better than Atlas Shrugged. If you have to choose one Ayn Rand book to read, I suggest The Fountainhead; this is the second one I would recommend. Her themes are repetitous and blunt--she is hardly subtle, and is even cartoonish in places. But everyone should read at least one Rand book, just to know what his or her teenager is brooding about. :) Perfect for the late-adolescent sensibility, and the ideas are interesting, if delivered in a bit of a bludgeoning style.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
The ultimate tale of the triumph of the human spirit. A great read - but what would you expect!?
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A classic tale portraying the value of individualism...
"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 becaues he had comitted the unpardonable sin: he had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone."
This edition includes an intro. by Ayn Rand's heir, Leonard Peikoff. It contains excerpts from documents by Ayn Rand--letters, interviews, and journal notes, in which she discusses Anthem. The Appendix reproduces the entire original British edition with Ayn Rand's handwritten edtorial changes.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
chilling, especially in the age of McDonald's and Starbucks the same for all services and choices.
Read All Book Reviews of "Anthem"
Please Rate these Book Reviews
Ayn Rand is a brilliant writer. Her talent as an artist is outstanding. Though her philosophy is basically just recycled Nietzsche. Egoistic humanism, romantically upholding the greatness of man and reason. Lacking any basis in reason for why man should be so highly esteemed. She seems to be saying that man is great, because he builds tall buildings, and makes beautiful music, and art and culture and all that. And man makes art, and beautiful music, and tall buildings and all that, because man is great. I find it to be circular logic, and faulty philosophy that leaves us lost not really knowing our place in the world. That's how I see it at least.
Stacie M. (This novel was required reading for my freshman year of high school. The story fascinated me and led me to the world of utopian/dystopian books, which are now my favorite genre. Rand takes you into a place where everyone is told they are equal, but can it be possible?
Interesting book. I put off reading it in high school but am glad I finally did.
Candice J. (Quite simply the best book I've ever read. Compelling. Short. Really impacted my life and way of thinking, permanently.
Ayn Rand'd classic tale of a future dark age of the great "We"-in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values-anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future dark age of the great " WE"- a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values.
Read All Book Reviews of "Anthem"
Book Wiki
Common Title
Series
Original Publication Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
People/Characters
Real Places
Fictional Places
Important Events
Awards and Honors