
We the Living (1936)
Set in Soviet Russia, this is Ayn Rand’s first and most autobiographical
novel. Its theme is: “the individual against the state, the supreme value of a
human life and the evil of the totalitarian state that claims the right to
sacrifice it.”
- Listen to an audiobook excerpt from Chapter One.
- Listen to an audiobook excerpt from the end of Chapter One.
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