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Title Essays on Ayn Rand's We the living / edited by Robert Mayhew
Edition 2nd ed
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 420 p.)
Contents Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Bibliographical Note; I: The History of We the Living; 1 From Airtight to We the Living; 2 Parallel Lives; 3 We the Living and the Rosenbaum Family Letters; 4 The Education of Kira Argounova and Leo Kovalensky; 5 Russian Revolutionary Ideology and We the Living; 6 The Music of We the Living; 7 Publishing We the Living; 8 Reviews of We the Living; 9 Adapting We the Living; 10 We the Living: '36 & '59; II: We the Living as Literature and as Philosophy; 11 We the Living and Victor Hugo; 12 Red Pawn
13 The Integration of Plot and Theme in We the Living14 The Sacred in We the Living; 15 The Plight of Leo Kovalensky; 16 Kira's Family; 17 Kira Argounova Laughed; 18 Forbidding Life to Those Still Living; 19 The Death Premise in We the Living and Atlas Shrugged; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors
Summary This is the second edition of the study of Ayn Rand's first novel, We the Living, which is set in Soviet Russia, and was written in 1936, ten years after she left the U.S.S.R. Topics explored include: the fascinating history behind the novel's creation; its autobiographical nature; its reception during America's "Red Decade"; its connection to Victor Hugo (Rand's favorite novelist); and, the philosophy of freedom and the sanctity of life which it portrays and defends
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p 407-408) and index
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Subject Rand, Ayn. We the living
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Literature and the revolution
Subject Soviet Union.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Mayhew, Robert
LC no. 2021698593
ISBN 9780739149713
0739149717
0739149695
9780739149690
9781280666407
1280666404
9786613643339
6613643335