Anthem (Heathen Edition)

<p><strong style=background-color: initial>Ayn Rand</strong> (1905-1982) was the pen name of Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum a Russian-American writer and philosopher known for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. The tenets of which are espoused in all of her writings but especially in her two best-selling novels <strong style=background-color: initial><em>The Fountainhead</em></strong> and <strong style=background-color: initial><em>Atlas Shrugged</em></strong>. Born in Russia and educated during the Russian Revolution she experienced firsthand the horrors of Communism in action and yearning to escape emigrated to the United States in 1926.</p><p>In the 30s as a warning to Western civilization about the horrors of collectivism she penned <strong style=background-color: initial><em>Anthem</em></strong> which was published in England but initially refused publication in America for reasons the reader will soon discover. It presents a dystopian future in which totalitarian collectivism has triumphed to such an extent that even the word I has been forgotten and replaced with We and where men are put to death for the crime of discovering and speaking the unspeakable word until one young man Equality 7-2521 vows to illuminate the Collective darkness and write the first chapter in the new history of man.</p>