Classics · Literary
The Fountainhead
An uncompromising young architect refuses to design anything but what he believes in, even when it costs him commissions and friends. The novel sets him against a world of conformity and compromise.
- First published
- 1943
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- long
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like long, polemical novels about individualism, whether you agree with them or not.
Skip this if you dislike lecturing, or want complex, believable characters, since many of them stand for ideas.
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