Anthem

Ayn Rand's searing portrait of a dystopian future in which all ego has been erasedIn a world where science and learning are banned and the simple utterance of the Unspeakable Word,I, is punishable by death, a man named Equality 7-2521 struggles with his unquenchable desire to investigate, to think, to know. His instincts are a ',curse' that threatens to bring him to the attention of a government dedicated to the elimination of the self. But Equality 7-2521 cannot ignore his true nature, just as ...