Uncompromising architect Howard Roark refuses to bend his individualist vision to please clients, critics, or the conformist tastes of the establishment, colliding with a rival architect, a newspaper tycoon, and a critic determined to destroy him.
Books mentioned in The Fountainhead (3)
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: “"-The noble soul has reverence for itself.-" (Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.)”
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “"Ever read Faust?" "What do you want?" "Howard Roark's neck."”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “It was a movie theater and the marquee had letters made of rainbows: Romeo and Juliet.”
Books that mention The Fountainhead (3)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky: “I gave Sam To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Walden, and The Fountainhead.”
The Art of Nonfiction by Ayn Rand: “"As to what your attitude toward writing should not be, the best image is 'Ike the Genius' in The Fountainhead—the modern playwright who says he is a creative genius, not a typist." — Rand using a character from her own earlier novel as a craft example in her own lecture voice.”
The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand: “With the publication of The Fountainhead, she achieved a spectacular and enduring success.”