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Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia. First published in 1936, 'We the Living' portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young womans passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state. 'We the Living' is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb? Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice. (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/432.Ayn_Rand) Ayn Rand (19051982) was born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg to a prosperous Jewish family as Alisa Rosenbaum. When the Bolsheviks requisitioned her family's business, they fled to the Crimea, and she later moved to America as soon as she was offered the chance. After beginning her writing career wi

Who reads We the Living : 60Th Anniversary Edition?

Author

Ayn Rand; with a new introduction by Leonard Peikoff

Publisher

Penguin; Signet

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525940548

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Philosophy

Rating

3.89 / 5 (21,261 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14