Hello
Does anyone have text and mp3 of this great book. May be you can convert it to lessons?
Thank you.
I don’t think it’s in the public domain.
Librivox is probably accurate about such things. According to a forum on its site, the US copyright fo “Atlas Shrugged” will not expire until 2053, the US copyright for “The Fountainhead” will expire in 2039 and the US copyright for “We the Living” will expire in 2032*. So Elric is correct.
*Source:
https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?t=11406
accessed Aug. 17, 2012.
donhamilton and librivox are right. However, Atlas Shrugged would have gone into the public domain in 2014 (date of copyright + 56 years), if U.S. copyright law had stayed the same as it was when the book was published.
I have copies of this book in both English and Italian, unfortunately they are printed books so I cannot use them with LingQ!
(Side note: I actually find the Italian easier to read than the English because the Italian translation is a bit more straightforward language.)
If you subscribe to Audible.com, both Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are available there. I have copies of both, but they’re copyrighted, so unfortunately I can’t turn them into LingQ lessons.
Thank God…
copyright law had stayed the same as it was when the book was published.
I want to ask people who already read this book. What do you think about this book? Do you agree that entrepreneurs push our world forward?
From a purely literary viewpoint, it is a poor book. It would have been long forgotten had it not been successful in providing some veneer of intellectual ‘cover’ for those who benefitted from radical reshaping of US/UK economic policy in the 1980’s.
No one disgarees that to an extent entrepreneurs push society forward, and that market economics have strong connections to improvements in aspects of society but it is the ludicrous extent these exist in the book in opposition to a soley evil government which only wishes to distort, control and monopolise which hinder the ‘ideas’. By the way in answer to your question I would auger that entrepreneurs play rather a small role in the development of modern life, in as much as we exist in a much deeper and complex network than the mere profit motive can even attempt to influence.
A quick look into the private life of Rand and actually to whom this book is akin to a bible (Hedge fund managers, gun nuts, “Sovereign Rights” wackjobs, leading Tea Party candidates…) should give off strong warning signs.
I’d strongly suggest anyone going down the Rand route to take a look at this documentary, by the groundbreaking BBC director Adam Curtis. In his polemic (which I’d largely agree with) the book is essentially the product of a tormented mind.
Adam Curtis - All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
http://vimeo.com/27393748
Very good answer. Thank you a lot.
Never saw the appeal of Ayn Rand. Probably never will.
I read about a third of the way into it and then stopped. It is extremely long, it could have been edited down a lot.
But I understand it’s appeal to many.
I would recomend Candide, it is much shorter, very funny and more inspirational:)
BTW vrsaratov, it says in lurkmore that Ayn Rand is easy for Russians to read in English, because she was Russian and it influenced her English. What do you think ?
BTW vrsaratov, it says in lurkmore that Ayn Rand is easy for Russians to read in English, because she was Russian and it >influenced her English. What do you think ?
I don’t think so, may be because my English is not so perfect.