“Atlas Shrugged”: A simplified version of “The Fountainhead”

Ayn Rand has just finished “Тhe Fountainhead”. She has created a supreme masterpiece of manipulation. She managed to entangle everything good in the black web of spiritual death and to leave readers to wander hopelessly in the labyrinth of delusion. This book is her personal message to humanity and her biggest triumph over it. She must have been proud of herself. And then… the world did not understand her.

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Scarlett O’Hara and Melanie Wilkes – The main love story in “Gone with the Wind”

“Gone with the Wind” is a novel for love and greatness. In it, there are two mighty women. Scarlett O’Hara, amidst her vanity and stupidity, saved love and brought it to an era where there was no place for it. Melanie Hamilton-Wilkes faced the whole horror of the war with her fragility and reflected it as nobility and compassion. Scarlett was a downpour aiming to break free from its cloud. Melanie was a dew, caressing the grass and calmly waiting for the dawn. The two of them created a flood which drowned the new world in its beauty.

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Pride and splendor in “Gone with the Wind”

“Gone with the Wind” is a stage of the might of history, the titanic pride of the South, unbendable love and merciless purity. This novel transforms horror into a song and love into a sun rising amidst a thunderstorm. Here, fear is a superior emotion as it is accompanied by courage, dignity, and will for life and the individual shines equally bright in the personal tragedies and in the common fate of the Confederation.

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