Russell's ebook Library

Anthem
Ayn Rand
In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values.Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all tr...

Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his ha...

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand
This collection of 26 essays constitutes a challenging look at modern society. The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radical...

The Early Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
This collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction - including her short story 'The Night King' - ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of 'We the Living and The Fountainhead'.Arranged chronologically, from 1926 through 1940, thes...

For the New Intellectual
Ayn Rand
This is Ayne Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosphical doctrince of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectua...

The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls.First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense of individualism and presents an exalted view of man'...

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
Ayn Rand
Denies that human senses cannot be trusted, that logic is arbitrary, and that concepts have no basis in reality and discusses universals

Journals of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From 'Journals of Ayn Rand,' we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosop...

Philosophy: Who Needs It
Ayn Rand
This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philo...

Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
Ayn Rand and Peter Schwartz
In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion, " ...

The Virtue of Selfishness
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand here sets for the the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life - the life proper to a rational being - as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as imcompatible with man's nature, with the creative req...

The Voice of Reason
Ayn Rand
Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Maryli...

We the Living
Ayn Rand
A philosophical novel from Russian-born Ayn Rand, who was known for her belief in the concept of "enlightened self-interest."It portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursu...