Anthem

by Ayn Rand

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Anthem was published in the United Kingdom in 1938, but the U.S. edition was delayed until 1946, following the success of The Fountainhead. Anthem is Rand's Dystopian story about a new Dark Age in which technological advances are carefully planned, and individualism is suppressed. "I" has been replaced by "we." A young man known as "Equality 7-2521" is caught conducting secret science research, he and his girlfriend escape to the forest where they hatch a plan to create a new society based on individualism. Rand expanded the work into a novella; her original intention was as a screenplay.

WE ARE ONE IN ALL AND ALL IN ONE.
THERE ARE NO MEN BUT ONLY THE GREAT WE,
ONE, INDIVISIBLE AND FOREVER.

would be replaced by:

I am. I think. I will.
The sacred word:
EGO

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Table of Contents

Part One

Part Two - Liberty 5-3000

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

Part Seven

Part Eight - It has been a day of wonder, this, our first day in the forest

Part Nine

Part Ten

Part Eleven - I am. I think. I will.

Part Twelve

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