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The Early Ayn Rand |
1984 |
Ayn Rand |
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The Early Ayn Rand appeared two years after her death, drawing on manuscripts and published pieces from the earliest phase of her American writing career. The stories date from the late 1920s through the 1930s, a period when she was working as a screenwriter and developing the voice that would produce We the Living and The Fountainhead.
Leonard Peikoff, who oversaw the Rand archive and led the Objectivist movement after her death, assembled and introduced the collection. For readers interested in how her major themes developed, The Early Ayn Rand shows the ideas in an earlier, less systematized state.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books are in the Ayn Rand Short Story Collections series?
There are one books in the Ayn Rand Short Story Collections series, published in 1984.
What is the first book in the Ayn Rand Short Story Collections series?
The first book in the Ayn Rand Short Story Collections series is The Early Ayn Rand, published in 1984.
What kind of fiction appears in The Early Ayn Rand?
The Early Ayn Rand (1984) collects short stories and shorter prose Rand wrote in the late 1920s and 1930s, before the publication of We the Living and The Fountainhead. The stories show her developing the themes and character types that would define her major novels in earlier, shorter form. Leonard Peikoff, her philosophical executor, edited the volume and provided context for each piece.