B. J. Harrison Reads Anthem
Written by Ayn Rand
Narrated by B. J. Harrison
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About this audiobook
Mankind has entered another Dark Age. Individuality has been eliminated. People refer to themselves only by using “we” and “they”. All live in collective homes and the mass is more important than the individual. However even in this far future, there is someone called Equality 7-2521 who stands against the norm. He wants to dig deeper into what he has been told and learnt but is it allowed? Will he get himself in danger? Has the future made some progress or will the problems remain the same?
This dystopian novel by Ayn Rand discusses all those topics and holds the answers to all of your questions.
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Ayn Rand was a Russian-American author who lived in the period 1905-1982. She wrote several fiction novels, two of which, “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged”, gained her wide popularity. She was also interested in philosophy and many of her later works introduced the idea of “Objectivism”, the philosophical system which she developed herself. The critical reception she received during her lifetime was varying, but one thing the reader can be sure of, is that Ayn Rand’s works are nothing like commercial literature.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) wrote the bestselling novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) and founded the philosophy known as objectivism. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Rand taught herself to read at the age of six and soon resolved to become a professional writer. In 1926, she left Communist Russia to pursue a screenwriting career in Hollywood, and she published her first novel ten years later. With her next book, the dystopian novella Anthem (1938), she introduced the theme that she would devote the rest of her life to pursuing: the inevitable triumph of the individual over the collective.
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Reviews for B. J. Harrison Reads Anthem
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The best thing about this audio book is its message of individualism. The presentation was simply superb.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A tale set in a retrograde future in the form a parable a la a Grimm’s or Anderson’s fairy tale where her characters use only collective pronouns.
Covers Rands usual preoccupation with personal dignity, egoism and the beauty of the individual and his superiority to the collective.
Well narrated by Harrison.