If a dedication page were to preced the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

We the Living (1936)

We The Living cover 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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