The Early Ayn Rand
A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction (Revised Edition)

This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fictionnow including the previously unpublished short story, The Night Kingranges from beginners exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead. Arranged chronologically, from 1926 through 1940, these works allow readers to follow the extraordinary trajectory of Rands literary and intellectual growth, from a twentyoneyearold Russian immigrant struggling to master English to the brilliant prose stylist and sophisticated philosopher she was to become in her mature work.