The Fountainhead

The story portraying a Man how a Man should be.. In the form of a creative thinker and an innovator, self joyous, independent from the second hand opinions and desires, self sustained and free of all kinds of second hand suffering.. The protagonist is a individual architect who designs a building with all his spirit, unaltered by second hand opinions and thought process.. A man who knows only to give the best of himself to the cause he is best at.. To not surrender to the world in manner of winning hearts of the mob, but to keep his soul out for the cause.. For the cause of betterment of mankind and its progree forward.. He is best at what he does.. The world opposes him just as it opposed all the innovators through ages.. Wheel, Sun, Fire, and so on... All the first hand thinkers are made to suffer by this world... People make him suffer.. but the Man is beyond all the suffering the world can impart on him.. He knows the best what to expect from this majorly unworthy world.. He sticks around till the end with his selfless integrity and soul.. And he wins just as such person should win through time.. He is not dependent on any other man for his joy or other's acknowledgement.. Just keeps on doing what is best for the Mankind.. Just what a Man should be.. Other few like minded people stick along his crusade.. Giving meaning to their own lives.. The Man wins just as a Man with such callibre and attitude towrds Life should.. Wonderful story with a wonderful philosophy.. Must read..

Printing is good old book type. Ordered from seller retailez . Good delivery not provided any bubble wrap or something but I got it undamaged and spine is great corners are right not wrinkled. Good quality pages wrt price. Word printing is slightly small but readable . No issues . Not dissatisfied by quality and delivery. Try to buy from seller who has over 50K reviews. High chances you will get best product. Sometimes price may vary from 20 30 rs extra but it's worth investing rather than disappointing. So this was quick review on quality. I will write full review after reading it so. That's all .

THERE ARE SO MANY REVIEWS ABOUT CONTENT OF THE BOOK. HERE I AM SHARING DETAILS ABOUT DIFFERENT EDITION OF THIS BOOK. THERE are GENERALLY 4 TYPES OF EDITION . ( PHYSICAL BOOKS ) 1) MASS MARKET PAPERBACK 2) PAPERBACK 3) HARDCOVER 4) LIBRARY BINDING THE SURPRISING PART IS THAT THE FOUNTAINHEAD HAVE 730 PAGES. AND ALL EDITION CONTAIN SAME NUMBER OF PAGES.( GENERALLY THERE IS SOME DIFFERENCE) 1) MASS MARKET PAPERBACK :- A Mass market paperback is very small size book. published by publisher too decrease the cost of production and final price. HERE THE mrp is 400 rs. for 730 pages , and because of this the quality of the book is very low . and also the main problem is FONT which is very very very small ,( because large content in very small book) . so for fountainhead i do not suggest you to buy this edition.(there are some other mass market paperback of different books are available , but font in those books are good like 'to kill a mockingbird') ISBN :- 978-0451191151 2) PAPERBACK :- paperbacks are general sized book. the size varies with publishers . but for penguin it is generally 19.6 cm long and 12.7 cm width. there are two different editions according to two different Contries. USA And UK. first one is fountainhead published by penguin uk modern classics. i prefer this edition to purchase. because the size is large compare mass market paperback and have 19.6 cm length and 13 cm width. The font is small but compare to mass market paperback , font is good. The paper quality is also good.(not great) binding is also good. But the main thing is price. Price is great . This edition is available for 200 to 400 rs. Which is great thing because book is printed in UK. ( Indian printing is cheap) The us edition was published by PLUME. The size is large compare to UK paperback. But the price is very high . You have to import the book. So I suggest you don't go for this Edition. ISBN Penguin UK edition :- 978-0141188621 ISBN USA PLUME edition :- 9780452273337 3) HARDCOVER :- the Hardcovers are generally most expensive one .because of sewn binding and hard cover. The fountainhead Hardcover edition is published by Penguin USA under centennial Hardcover edition. The book is big . But contain same no. Of pages. So if you are in love with the fountainhead and want to collect it then go for this edition.for this you have to search " Ayn Rand Hardcover" on amazon.in ( otherwise you will not find this book ) this will cost you -between 1000 to 2000. You can also import this edition from Amazon.co.uk ISBN Hardcover Edition:-978-0452286757 4) Library Binding :- These are Mass market paperback in the cloths of low quality Hard Cover. So here , soft cover of a mass market paperback is Removed and then a low quality Hard cover is attached to same mass market paperback. This is done by third party . In the case of fountainhead it is done by TURTLEBACK book. Do not go for this edition. As they are made from mass market paperback .fonts are too small. And too close. this edition does not deserve ISBN , waste of money In short best value for money edition is penguin uk edition. Penguin uk edition link The Fountainhead (Penguin Modern Classics) https://www.amazon.in/dp/0141188626/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_9APJBb3V66CH6 Thank You. Images 1) comparison of mass market paperback and paperback 2) fountainhead uk 3) fountainhead Plume USA 4) library binding 5) hardcover 6) comparison of massmarket paperback , paperback and hardcover. 7) aboslutely brilliant edition p.s. :- the font in THE UK edition is also small, but compare to mass market paperback fonts are good. this problem is because of the content,that is the content of the book is very large, so if a publisher decides to publish this book with big fonts, the book will easily take 1100-1200 pages . and in that case , the book may become very expensive. edit 1 :- I Purchased hardcover edition of ATLAS SHRUGGED And it is absolutely brilliant , in all aspects. ( image 6 and 7 ) there is another paperback edition of The Fountainhead. which is published in USA . have similar cover and size same as hardcover. ( ISBN for this paperback edition is 9780452286375)

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Nice service by amazon. Book quality is good. One should defenetly read it. The fountainhead is a story of a man with great integrity. It teaches the value of integrity in character. People around willeither fear, envy, respect or love him. This man makes difficult choices consciously knowing the repercussions. For some he is a threat and leave no stone unturned to destroy him. Some admire and love him. For some he makes them realize their own self and live it. Novel beautifully unveils his journey through all these kind of people. In any phase of life that might challenge your living, carrier or relationship it is your integrity that will sail you through it and determine your destiny.

Ayn Rand really awakens you with Truth Bombs , So much to realte to , Also . So much to look up to , The excellence, Profundity, wisdom embodied in the character of Howard Roark, The highest possibility of man, Rand just forces us to discard the mediocrity within. This is and always be, something very close to me, I can see in myself, The greed and lust of Keating, The will to power of Gail , The cunningness of Toohey, The love of Dominique, But most importantly I want Howard to live within me till my last breath. He will

It's a small size book Font is small. Paper not good. 694 pages. If you are okay with it then buy and read. Personally I'm not happy with the print. Description, it's written 200 pages I bought it by seeing that. In real it's not 200 pages, it's 694 pages.

Too small expected a normal quality one and size and the print is unreadable for me.

On its surface, this book is about two different architects who simultaneously embark upon their careers in New York City. At its core, it’s about the difference in philosophy between individualism and collectivism. If you know Ayn Rand, then you know she is a champion of individualism, and thus her protagonist is a man named Howard Roark, an architect who expresses his individualism with every project he designs. He is innovative and fiercely independent and simply doesn’t give a damn what other people think. Sometimes, his indifference to the opinions of others gets him in trouble, and yet there are also times when other characters express their admiration of his strong will, lamenting the fact that they themselves care what other people think. Roark represents Rand’s ideal of the creative individual who lives for himself and not for others. Rand is the mother of a school of philosophy called Objectivism, which she once described as “the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” With this definition in mind, it is evident that Roark embodies her philosophy as he is a man who only cares about his own happiness, to varying degrees of success and failure. Roark’s classmate and counterpart is Peter Keating, a man who represents collectivism in all its forms. Keating is a natural conformist whose architectural designs are all reproductions of past styles—like Renaissance, Gothic, or Beaux-Arts—and are based on whatever he thinks will win him more clients or public approval. He is constantly seeking validation from others and is dependent on them for his success. While Roark’s designs come from his own creative soul, Keating’s designs are simply a mirror of popular taste and client demands, but never anything original. While he initially finds success, by the end of the book Keating has become a shell of a man. The main antagonist of the book is a journalist, architecture critic, and political activist named Ellsworth Toohey. Toohey is a power-seeking intellectual and collectivist who uses his talents to shape public opinion. He organizes numerous groups and committees and uses people’s desire to help others (their altruism) as a means of control and mass manipulation. He wants to crush individuality (often in the form of Howard Roark) and promote collectivism, and what he ultimately gets for this endeavor is mediocrity. One of the other major themes in this book is the relationship between power and the media. This is first expressed in the character of Toohey as he uses his circulated writing in order to mold public opinion, and is then later encountered again when the character of Gail Wynand is introduced as one of the most powerful newspaper magnates in the city. At one point, Wynand tries to use his newspaper to uplift Roark and is nearly run out of business for it and must relent his efforts. The take-away from this is twofold: both the power of those in charge to manipulate public opinion, and the power of a collectivist mindset once an idea takes hold. All in all, this book is a philosophical novel that expertly expresses the struggle between creative independence and societal conformity. While Rand lands firmly on the side of the individual, I was very aware of points throughout the book when I did not. I won’t share specifics so as not to spoil the plot, but my take-away was not that we should all champion the creative rights and rationality of the individual and condemn those of the collective, but that a balance between the two is necessary. There are certainly times when individual creativity and ingenuity should be put on the front page of the newspaper and celebrated by the world, and also, there are times when we should all come together and adopt a hive mind. Take architecture: If I’m designing a new train station, perhaps I should be allowed to express my individual talents and make a one-of-a-kind train station that is beautiful and functional and unlike any other. Alternatively, if I’m designing a community of one hundred houses, perhaps I should model them after a community that has already been constructed elsewhere so as to keep costs down and make them affordable to families. I believe that whether we should adopt an individualist mindset or a collectivist one should depend on the context. With that as my own personal take-away, I must praise the prose of Rand’s writing: her book, while long, is exquisite. Her characters are well defined and not afraid to speak their minds and often said and did things that I did not expect. Her vivid descriptions of people, places, and things brought them to life in my mind. Her writing is engaging and full of ideas, and while I speculated that individualism would win out in the end (knowing the author’s philosophy ahead of time), at no point did I know what was going to happen next. I enjoyed this book wholeheartedly, both for the surface story and for the underlying philosophy.

Uma obra prima.

El libro no es de fácil lectura, algunos personajes son complicados, pero este antagonismos lo que le da esencia al libro y la profundidad de los diálogos y monólogos de y entre los personajes llevan al lector a comprender la filosofía del Individualismo y su valor Vs su antagónico Colectivismo

「面白かった」「勉強になった」「この本と出会えて良かった」「また読み直したい」という本は、そこそこあります。「こんな本ともっと早くに出会えていたら自分の人生は変わっていたかもしれない」とまで思わせる本は少ないです。この小説はそんな小説です。日本語訳が出ているかも知れないけれど、確か、原書が出版されてからずいぶん遅れてのことだったような記憶があります。主人公の男（女）の生き方が、日本ではなかなか受け入れられないのだろうと思います。

Bought it as a gift, she loved it