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Book Review of Anthem

Anthem
Anthem
Author: Ayn Rand
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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IMO, this is a very condensed version of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. No excessive repetition of Rand's philosophy. Chapter 11 clearly states her philosophy and is probably one of her best pieces of writing. The similarities to the book We by Yevgeny Zamyatin are scary. I'm reluctant to speculate that the plagiarism of ideas took place, but it is very possible to come up with this idea of "WE" instead of "I", given the fact that both authors lived in communist Russia.