Anthem / [print]
by Ayn Rand ; with an introduction and appendix by Leonard Peikoff.
- Centennial edition.
- New York, New York : Dutton, (c)2005.
- 253 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes a facsimile of the original English edition, published in 1938, with Rand's editorial changes for the American edition in her own hand.
Equality 7-2521 lives in the Dark Ages of the future, where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, all traces of individualism have been wiped out. But the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in Equality 7-2521, a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, he dares to stand forth from the herd --