About the Book: Anthem
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937, and first
published in 1938 in England. The story unfolds within a society in which all
traces of individualism have been eliminated from every aspect of life—use of
the word I is a capital offense. The hero, a rebel who discovers that mans
greatest moral duty is the pursuit of his own happiness, embodies the values the
author embraced in her personal philosophy of objectivism—reason, ethics,
volition, and individualism.
Hailed by The New York Times as ""a compelling dystopian look at paranoia from
one of the most unique and perceptive writers