We the Living (75th-Anniversary Edition) [Paperback]

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 Livingportrays 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 woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.

We the Livingis 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. 

Includes an Introduction and Afterword by Ayn Rand’s Philosophical Heir, Leonard PeikoffBorn February 2, 1905,Ayn Randpublished her first novel,We the Living, in 1936.Anthemfollowed in 1938. It was with the publication ofThe Fountainhead(1943) andAtlas Shrugged(1957) that she achieved her spectacular success. Rand’s unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a worldwide audience. The fundamentals of her philosophy are put forth in three nonfiction books,Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology,The Virtues of Selfishness, andCapitalism: The Unknown Ideal. They are all available in Signet editions, as is the magnificent statement of her artistic credo,The Romantic Manifesto.US