Ayn Rand
Philosopher and Author
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We (novel)...been cheerfully ripped off from Eugene Zamiatin's We." Ayn Rand's Anthem '' (1938) has several major similarities to ''We, although it is stylistically and thematically different. George Orwell began Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) some eight... In this article: Yevgeny Zamyatin, George Orwell, Jerome K. Jerome, Genesis, Huxley, Brave New World, and Nineteen Eighty-Four |
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New Kerala | October 09, 2009
I am 90 percent entertainer, 10 percent reformer: Chetan Bhagat
...- a popular fiction has to be a dialogue with the people on the streets," he said. Bhagat is inspired by novelists George Orwell and Ayn Rand. Publisher Rupa and Co is aiming to sell "10 lakh copies in 10 weeks". "We have also kept...
In this article: Chetan Bhagat, India, Shashi Tharoor, George Orwell, and New Delhi
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Stuff | July 23, 2009
Orwellian Amazon kindles Big Brother fears
...be able to take away something that had already been bought. Amazon had previously removed paid-for Ayn Rand and Harry Potter books from Kindle devices for the same reason. Cries of "Big Brother" could be heard almost instantly and...
In this article: Amazon, George Orwell, Big Brother, Jeff Bezos, Australia, United States, Kazaa, Adelaide University, Iphone, and BlackBerry
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Slate Magazine - Slate's main feed | July 20, 2009
How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future.
...memory hole. In June, fans of Ayn Rand suffered the same fate-Amazon removed Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and The Virtue of Selfishness, with an explanation that it had "recently discovered a problem" with the titles. And some...
In this article: Amazon.com, Apple, Barnes & Noble, George Orwell, Itunes, Slate, AOL, EchoStar, Animal Farm, and TiVo
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BetaNews.Com | September 04, 2009
Kindle users get Amazon offer for returned deleted books, gift certificates
...title. Last June, the retailer deleted illegitimate copies of Ayn Rand novels, including Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and The Virtue of Selfishness, one month prior to the deletions of Orwell's novels also including Animal Farm. Amazon...
In this article: Amazon, George Orwell, Harvard University, YouTube, Respondent, Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Google Books, and The Virtue of Selfishness
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Guardian Unlimited | July 17, 2009
'Big Brother' move for Kindle users
...breach of copyright and sold illegally through its store. Examples include pirated copies of Twilight books by Stephanie Meyer, Harry Potter books and the works of novelist Ayn Rand. Although the work of Orwell - who died in 1950 - has...
In this article: Amazon.com, Big Brother, George Orwell, United States, Owners, JavaScript, Stephanie Meyer, Barnes & Noble, and Harry Potter
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Reason Magazine - Topics > Comic Books | October 23, 2009
Frank Miller, Blog Commenter
...presented by Ayn Rand in her 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged. Eschewing the easy and much-used totalitarian menace made popular by George Orwell, Rand focused instead on issues of competence and incompetence, courage and cowardice, and took the...
In this article: Frank Miller, Victor Davis Hanson, 300, Martha Washington, The Spirit, Barack Obama, Sin City, and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
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Digital Trends | July 24, 2009
Bezos Apologizes for Amazon's 1984 Deletions
The books in question included copies of George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984-along with works by other authors including Ayn Rand and J.K. Rowling-that were not authorized by the copyright holders and were being sold for just $1. Once...
In this article: Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, Customer, George Orwell, Animal Farm, and J.K. Rowling
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Wikipedia | September 23, 2009
Narrative structure
...and King Lear and the movie Legends of the Fall. And finally Winter myths are dystopias, for example George Orwell's 1984 or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World or Ayn Rand's novella Anthem . Hollywood scriptwriters, television soap opera...
In this article: Northrop Frye, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Vladimir Propp, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Roland Barthes
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Film.com Movie Blog | April 12, 2009
Pirates of the Caribbean Director Jumps Ship
...mood and atmosphere, and deep, dark, mature themes. Rooted very heavily in science fiction and inspired by the works of Ayn Rand and George Orwell, BioShock is set in an alternate history Earth in which a rich industrialist commissions...
In this article: Gore Verbinski, BioShock, Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Jack Sparrow, George Orwell, Johnny Depp, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Ring
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Ayn Rand (IPA: /pron/; – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism.
Born to a Jewish family and educated in Russia, Rand emigrated to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935-1936. She first achieved fame with The Fountainhead (1943), and her best-known work – the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged – was published in 1957. Rand's political views, reflected in both her fiction and her theoretical work, emphasize individual rights (including property rights) and laissez-faire capitalism, enforced by constitutionally limited government. She was a fierce opponent of all forms of collectivism and statism, including fascism, communism, and the welfare state. She was also an atheist, and promoted ethical egoism (which she termed "rational self-interest") as energetically as she condemned altruism (which she called "moral cannibalism").
- Birth Date:
- February 02, 1905
- Birthplace:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Death Date:
- March 06, 1982
- Place of Death:
- New York City, USA
- Spouse:
- Frank O'Connor
- Occupation:
- Writer
- Known for:
- Influenced By:
- Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Stirner, Victor Hugo, Isabel Paterson, Ludwig von Mises
- Influenced:
- Martin Anderson, Andrew Bernstein, Craig Biddle, Harry Binswanger, Nathaniel Branden, Barbara Branden, James Clavell, Steve Ditko, Edith Efron, Terry Goodkind, Allan Gotthelf, Alan Greenspan, Henry Hazlitt, Robert Heinlein, Robert Hessen, Erika Holzer, John Hospers, Penn Jillette, David Kelley, L. Neil Smith, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Edwin A. Locke, Tibor Machan, Charles Murray, Ron Paul, Leonard Peikoff, George Reisman, Murray Rothbard, John Ridpath, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, George H. Smith, Kay Nolte Smith, Tara Smith, Clarence Thomas, Sylvia West, Anne Wortham, Anton Lavey.
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