the fountainhead

     

This 1943 Ayn Rand novel opens with the line "Howard Roark laughed"

Trivia about the fountainhead

  • Genius architect Howard Roark struggles to maintain his integrity in the face of mediocrity for some 700 pages
  • Howard Roark, the central architect in this novel, was supposedly modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright
  • To research this 1943 novel, Ayn Rand worked in an architect's office
  • Egoism & genius prevail in this 1943 bestselling novel
  • Frank Lloyd Wright was the basis for Howard Roark, the uncompromising architect in this Ayn Rand novel
  • Ayn Rand book that ends with "Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark"
  • The last line of this epic is "Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark"
  • This Ayn Rand novel tells the story of architect Howard Roark & Dominique Francon, the woman he loves
  • Howard Roark's nonconformist ideas get him expelled from architectural school in this Ayn Rand novel
  • As this 1943 Ayn Rand novel begins, Howard Roark has just been expelled from the Stanton Institute of Technology
  • This nearly 700-page work begins, "Howard Roark laughed."

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