एडवांस सर्च

The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors. In a bitter struggle of the individual against the collective, three people stand forth with the mark of the unconquered in their bearing: Kira, who wants to be a builder, and the two men who love her - Leo, an aristocrat, and Andrei, a Communist. In their tensely dramatic story, Ayn Rand shows what the theories of Communism mean in practice. We the Living is not a story of politics but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what dictatorship - of any kind - does to human beings, what kind of men are able to survive, and which of them remain as the ultimate winners. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb? Who are the winners in this conflict? Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand offers an answer that challenges the modern conscience.

A mad but cunning old man imprisons a young man in his apartment to be his friend.

A young woman decides to go back to school without the knowledge of her doctor husband.

A man poses as a mysterious admirer to find out whether his wife would cheat on him.

After having been captured in Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.

The sole girl pupil of a school for pickpockets is caught in the act stealing from a well dressed Count but he hires her to steal the watch of an ambassador who he thinks is having an affair with the countess.

In a fit of jealousy, store clerk Assia Norris walks out on her boyfriend and heads for a vacation in the Alps, but not before "borrowing" a high-priced ski wardrobe.

Left without reinforcements, Italian troops in Libia must defend themselves down to the last man against the British.

The rich banker Rosen of Livorno fear that the Bonapartist will take all his gold, so he is hiding it inside a cuckoo clock.