Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things.” But he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels.
Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society.Once these two men are destroyed - Andrei by his disillusionment with communism, and Leo by his inability to go on fighting - Kira tries to flee, but will she find it possible to defy the state’s power?.Desperate, she seeks help from Andrei Taganov, an ardent young communist whose love for Kira helps awaken him to the meaning of genuine personal values, not to be surrendered for others’ sake. Leo contracts tuberculosis but can’t get admitted to a state sanitarium, despite Kira’s best efforts. When Kira is kicked out of the university as an undesirable and Leo’s past makes him unemployable, life becomes a grim struggle for physical survival.Both Kira and Leo yearn to shape their own future - but they are trapped in a communist state that claims the right to sacrifice individual lives for the sake of the collective. Kira Argounova, a university engineering student who wants a career building bridges, falls in love with Leo Kovalensky, son of a czarist hero. The setting is Soviet Russia, early 1920s.Will Hank and Dagny succeed in saving the country - and will they discover the answer to the question “Who is John Galt?”.Discover why, at every turn, they are met with public opposition and new government roadblocks, taxes and controls - and with the disappearance of the nation’s most competent men and women. Follow along as industrialist Hank Rearden and railroad executive Dagny Taggart struggle to keep the country afloat and unravel the mysteries that confront them.Atlas Shrugged “is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man’s body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of man’s spirit.”.What is happening to the world? Why does it seem to be in a state of decay? Can it be saved - and how?.The remnants of a brilliant invention are left as scrap in an abandoned factory. A philosopher-turned-pirate is rumored to roam the seas. A copper magnate becomes a worthless playboy.All vanish without explanation and without trace.
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