The Objectivism Research CD-ROM
(2001)

CD-ROM

The Objectivism Research CD-ROM is the first electronically searchable reference work on Ayn Rand’s writings. Containing the text of her novels and the majority of her nonfiction, the CD-ROM allows readers to scroll through the text and to search for words and phrases. When the software locates a given search term, it lists every book and article that includes that term in the results window, and brings up the complete text of each work with the search term highlighted. The electronic text includes page references to paperback editions. Also, the CD-ROM includes the complete text of Leonard Peikoff’s The Ominous Parallels and Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. By special arrangement with the publisher, for every sale of the CD-ROM originating at ARI’s Web site, ARI will receive a royalty of 15 percent, which will go toward funding our projects.

Anthem
(1938)

This novelette depicts a world of the future, a society so collectivized that even the word “I” has vanished from the language. Anthem’s theme is: the meaning and glory of man’s ego.

Listen to an audiobook excerpt from Chapter One.

Atlas Shrugged
(1957)
 
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Ayn Rand’s complete philosophy, dramatized in the form of a mystery story “not about the murder of a man’s body, but about the murder—and rebirth—of man’s spirit.” The story is set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing due to the inexplicable disappearance of the country’s leading innovators and industrialists—the “Atlases” on whom the world rests. The theme is: “the role of the mind in man’s existence—and, as corollary, the demonstration of a new moral philosophy: the morality of rational self-interest.”

The Ayn Rand Reader
Edited by Gary Hull and Leonard Peikoff (1998)

The Ayn Rand Reader combines, for the first time in one volume, extensive excerpts from all of Ayn Rand’s novels (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We the Living, and Anthem) and her nonfiction work. The fiction excerpts present her dramatic, man-glorifying universe. The nonfiction excerpts explain Objectivism’s fundamental ideas, such as reason, rational selfishness, and laissez-faire capitalism. For example, Ayn Rand’s essay “Man’s Rights” is used to explain the foundations of individual rights and capitalism.

The Ayn Rand Reader is recommended both to readers new to Ayn Rand and to those already familiar with her work.

The Early Ayn Rand
(1984)

Paperback

A collection of stories and plays written by Ayn Rand in the 1920s and 1930s, plus passages cut from The Fountainhead.

The Fountainhead
(1943)
 
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The story of an innovator—architect Howard Roark—and his battle against a tradition-worshipping society. Its theme: “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul; the psychological motivations and the basic premises that produce the character of an individualist or a collectivist.” Ayn Rand presented here for the first time her projection of the ideal man.

Night of January 16th
(1934)

Softcover

A courtroom play in which the verdict depends on the sense-of-life of jurors selected from the audience.

We the Living
(1936)

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Set in Soviet Russia, this is Ayn Rand’s first and most autobiographical novel. Its theme is: “the individual against the state, the supreme value of a human life and the evil of the totalitarian state that claims the right to sacrifice it.”

Listen to an audiobook excerpt from Chapter One.
Listen to an audiobook excerpt from the end of Chapter One.