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"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."

— Marcel Proust

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "

— Oscar Wilde

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

— C. S. Lewis

"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"

— Stephan Mallarme

Ayn Rand | First Editions

1902 - 1982

Russian-born American novelist and philosopher. Her first novel, the semi-autobiographical We the Living is set in Communist Russia, and focused on the struggle between the individual and the state. Adapted into a pair of Italian films, "Noi vivi" and "Addio, Kira", in 1942. Rediscovered in the 1960s, these films were later re-edited into a new version which was approved by Rand and re-released, posthumously as "We the Living" (1986). Rand achieved fame with her breakthrough novel The Fountainhead (1943) and her magnum opus Atlas Shrugged (1957) was her last work of fiction before concentrating her writings exclusively on philosophy, politics and cultural criticism.

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