Anthem

by Ayn Rand

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Anthem

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Home of the Street Sweepers

Palace of Corrective Detention

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Equality 7-2521 (Prometheus)

Liberty 5-3000 (The Golden One | Gaea)

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The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Reader's List, 7)

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It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0452286352, Paperback)

Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a future dark age of the great “We”—a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values—anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

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