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    <![CDATA[We the Living: 60th Anniversary Edition]]>
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    <![CDATA[An exploration of the eternal human struggle between the human   individual and the state offers the first installment of Rand's   philosophy of Objectivism and features an introduction by the author's   heir, Leonard Peikoff. Reissue.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ayn Rand's first major work of fiction, written when she was just 25, while she was still too young and inexperienced in language to be a great writer, but too experienced in life to not have something great to say. If the book seems a little deriviative, one should remember that the now well-known and almost cliched story of Soviet-era repression was first told in this book, and later told in better style by Pasternak and others. But Rand's signature elements are present even at this early age: the beginnings of her individualist philosophy, the love triangle between a strong woman and two lesser men, the florid chapter-beginning sensory descriptions, and the somewhat wooden, speechifying dialogue. And this is not a criticism; I found &quot;We the Living,&quot; as all Rand's work, to be both less than a novel and more: less because of her lack of talent as a novelist in terms of plot, pacing, and dialogue. More because of the intellectual ideas and ideals to which she subscribes; the standards by which her characters' lives and choices are judged. Not bad work by a young, inexperienced writer in her second language, and strong, foundational support for her later works, &quot;The Fountainhead&quot; and &quot;Atlas Shrugged,&quot; both highly recommended.]]></body>
    
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