The Unconquered: With another, earlier adaptation of We the Living Ed Locke

The Unconquered: With another, earlier adaptation of We the Living Ed LockeBy Ayn Rand Edited by Robert Mayhew Ayn Rand was an American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system known as Objectivism. In the 1930s, Rand was asked to adapt her first novel, We the Living, for the theatre. We the Living is a story of life in post revolutionary Russia and Rand's first statement against communism.

a lethal ideology calling for holy war against infidels

voluntary obedience to the law

without authorization

vicious ideas—allied with physical force—threaten to destroy American freedom: "the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever

” wrote Ayn Rand

all “I should

Over the years

beautifully structured

” because events and individuals—in defiance of the obvious and conventional—can startle us with unexpected joy and goodness

which man shares with the higher animals

the edited transcripts of these remarkable sessions are available to readers and aspiring writers

or in colorful