Collection of (10) Ayn Rand Books $7 each!!!

This is a collection of books by Ayn Rand. Titles include Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, The Virtue of Selfishness, We The Living, and more. Some books are first editions and in various conditions. AWESOME FABULOUS PRICE for this hard to assemble set. Of course - here's the full thing together again, with the keywords at the end as one comma-separated list with no numbers: Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist and philosopher whose work created both a best-selling literary legacy and a distinct philosophical system. Born Alisa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg in 1905, she witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution and the confiscation of her family's property, an experience that shaped her lifelong opposition to collectivism. She emigrated to the United States in 1926, worked in Hollywood, and eventually became known for two things inseparably linked: novels that dramatize individualism, and a philosophy she named Objectivism. Her importance begins with her fiction, because it is through fiction that most people encounter her ideas. We the Living (1936) was her first novel, a semi-autobiographical story of life under Soviet communism. It introduced her central theme: the individual crushed by a state that claims to act for the collective good. Anthem (1938) is a short dystopian novella. Written as a parable, it depicts a future where the word "I" has been erased and is rediscovered by a single man. It remains one of the most assigned dystopian texts in American schools. The Fountainhead (1943) made her famous. Its protagonist, architect Howard Roark, refuses to compromise his creative vision to satisfy clients, critics, or public opinion. The novel is a defense of integrity and productive genius. It argues that creation is an individual act, not a social product. Despite being rejected by 12 publishers, it became a bestseller through word of mouth and has never gone out of print. Atlas Shrugged (1957) is her magnum opus and one of the longest bestsellers in American publishing. Set in a near-future America where economic controls and moral guilt are strangling industry, the nation's most productive innovators, industrialists, and artists begin to disappear. The novel follows Dagny Taggart, a railroad executive, as she tries to hold civilization together. Its 60-page speech by the character John Galt is Rand's most complete statement of her philosophy. At over 1,100 pages, it is both a mystery, a romance, and a work of philosophy in narrative form. It continues to sell hundreds of thousands of copies per year, more than six decades after publication. After 1957, Rand turned primarily to nonfiction. The Virtue of Selfishness (1964), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966), The Romantic Manifesto (1969), and Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982) lay out Objectivism systematically for a nonfiction audience. Rand called her philosophy Objectivism because she wanted to emphasize that reality exists objectively, independent of anyone's wishes, feelings, or beliefs. She summarized it as: "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."