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The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success.The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles against conventional standards and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
The story follows the life of Howard Roark, an individualistic architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision. Roark fights to design modern architecture despite resistance from the traditionally minded architectural establishment. Roark's complex relationships with the individuals who ...
Rand's first major success as a writer came in 1943 with The Fountainhead, [63] a novel about an uncompromising architect named Howard Roark and his struggle against what Rand described as "second-handers" who attempt to live through others, placing others above themselves.
The 88-year-old associates the copper coin with her childhood penny loafers and the summer afternoons when she and her friends would place them on a railroad track and wait for a train to smash ...
My father looked me over, and as he stood there for what felt like a very long time, I was sure he was going to hand me my head. And not on a platter. "I'll tell you what I'm going to do," he said.
Rand's Howard Roark is a brilliant young architect who must wage a hard fight against hide-bound mediocre rivals before becoming established in 20th-century New York. Follet's Merthin is a brilliant young architect who must wage a hard fight with a hide-bound mediocre rival before becoming established in Medieval England.
The most generous among America's richest billionaires give away more than 10% of their fortunes. Some of them are doing their best to give away all of it — or at least as much as they can while...
Howard Roark, the protagonist of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead; Roark family, a fictional dynasty in Frank Miller's graphic novel series Sin City. Roark Junior, the primary villain of That Yellow Bastard; Ted Roark, a character on Chuck; Roark (Pokémon), the Gym Leader of the Oreburgh Gym in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl