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Homeschooling Resources

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This section of the site provides homeschooling parents and their students with additional resources related to Ayn Rand’s novels, such as lesson plans, free books, essay contests and testing materials.

To request copies of Ayn Rand’s novels, as well as supplementary teaching materials, please fill out this form.

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Guides for Ayn Rand’s Novels


Biographical Information on Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand, by Jeff Britting

A vivid and concise biography packed with stunning, rarely seen photos of one of the 20th century’s most popular and influential novelists—“a writer of great power . . . a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing beautifully.” (The New York Times)

Ayn Rand: Sense of Life, by Michael Paxton (DVD)

In his Academy Award-nominated documentary on the life of Ayn Rand, director Michael Paxton brilliantly captures the spirit of this extraordinary individual. We see her passionate devotion to an ideal, the ideal of man the creator, man the valuer, man the hero. We see her intransigent loyalty to this ideal, in thought and in action, through the whole of her life from her start in the oppressive culture of collectivist Russia, to her new beginning in the country that embodied her radiant sense of life, to her ultimate achievements as best-selling novelist and originator of a philosophy that challenged the world’s most fundamental precepts.

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APRIL 8–10, 2010

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