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Original Title:	We the Living
ISBN:	0451187849 (ISBN13: 9780451187840)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Kira Argounova, Leo Kovalensky, Andrei Taganov
Setting:	St. Petersburg, Russia,1922 Russia

We the Living

Ayn Rand

Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 25453 Users | 1321 Reviews

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Title	:	We the Living
Author	:	Ayn Rand
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	60th Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1996 by Signet (first published 1936)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Philosophy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature

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Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.

First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.

We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb?

Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice.

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I'm going to kind of branch out here and do a different review and talk just what I felt strongly about in this book. If you would like a brief summary, wikipedia does an excellent job.Anyways, this book was one of the most devastatingly beautiful books I've ever read. The scene between Irina and Sascha broke my heart - it's one of the moments where, in typical Rand fashion, she weaves her characters into such real but horrendously tragic situations you just weep. I would recommend this book to

This is one of the most depressing books I've read in my life. It is set in Soviet Russia, right after the revolution, and describes in detail the horror that the people experienced under this regime. It's not the kind of horror of physical torture or death (although those existed as well, as everyone knows), but the horror of everyday life stripped of all freedom and hope, the horror of the human spirit crushed and forced to simply exist in order to toil and serve some grand collective. All

Ayn Rand is/was an interesting, intelligent woman. This is her first novel. If you're reading it simply for the novel then skip the introduction. If on the other hand you are interested in Ms. Rand's thought processes then by all means read the introduction. This is (of course) a newer edition (as the book was written in 1925. Ms. Rand wants us to understand that this is not a novel about the Soviet Union but a novel (in her words) of "man against the state".While I am not a "student" or

It's funny because this book usually only gets 5 stars or a 1 star, and here I am giving it a three star.I'll come up with a coherent review in the morning. Overall it was a good classic. Exhausting. But good.

WOW...that's all that comes to mind! A book about life, death, love, struggle and hope when you have NOTHING to live for, to hope for...you just can't stop reading until the very last word and once you're done, you can't wrap your head around it. A must read so you can appreciate how lucky you are...

Where to start? How to explain why I like it so very much?I like Ayn Rand's style of writing. Her language is strong, clear and not in the least subtle. I think I could recognize it in the future. The reader observes what the characters do. Very little introspection. The plot fits the language and the behavior of the characters. Strong, determined people - no not people, just one character, but she is the central character. Kira is her name. This book is autobiographical, but only in the sense

I liked this book the best of Ayn Rand's three big fiction books, as a novel.Perhaps it was because it was so very autobiographical in some ways of her time in St. Petersburg/Petrograd after the Russian Revolution. The gritty realism of just how unjust and difficult such a system the Soviet Socialist Union was becoming appeals to my love of historical realism.The passionate love affairs and beliefs of the characters were very vividly drawn. Even though I have not read it fully in over 30 years,