Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Bibliographical Note
Part 1: The History of We the Living
Chapter 1: From Airtight to We the Living: The Drafts of Ayn Rand’s First Novel
by Shoshana Milgram
Chapter 2: Parallel Lives: Models and Inspirations for Characters in We the Living
by Scott McConnell
Chapter 3: We the Living and the Rosenbaum Family Letters
by Dina Schein Federman
Chapter 4: The Education of Kira Argounova and Leo Kovalensky
by Shoshana Milgram
Chapter 5: Russian Revolutionary Ideology and We the Living
by John Ridpath
Chapter 6: The Music of We the Living
by Michael S. Berliner
Chapter 7: Publishing We the Living
by Richard E. Ralston
Chapter 8: Reviews of We the Living
by Michael S. Berliner
Chapter 9: Adapting We the Living
by Jeff Britting
Chapter 10: We the Living: ‘36 and ‘59
by Robert Mayhew
Part 2: We the Living as Literature and as Philosophy
Chapter 11: We the Living and Victor Hugo: Ayn Rand’s First Novel and the Novelist She Ranked First
by Shoshana Milgram
Chapter 12: Red Pawn: Ayn Rand’s other Story of Soviet Russia
by Jena Trammell
Chapter 13: The Integration of Plot and Theme in We the Living
by Andrew Bernstein
Chapter 14: The sacred in We the Living
by Robert Mayhew
Chapter 15: The Plight of Leo Kovalensky
by Onkar Ghate
Chapter 16: Kira’s Family
by John David Lewis
Chapter 17: Kira Argounova Laughed: Humor and Joy in We the Living
by Robert Mayhew
Chapter 18: Forbidding Life to Those Still Living
by Tara Smith
Chapter 19: The Death Premise in We the Living and Atlas Shrugged
by Onkar Ghate
Epilogue: Introduction to We the Living
by Leonard Peikoff
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors

About the Author

Robert Mayhew is professor of philosophy at Seton Hall University.
 

Reviews

With his edited collections of essays on Ayn Rand’s novels, Professor Mayhew has set a new standard for scholarship on these important and works, which have too often been ignored by academia. Essays on Ayn Rand’s We the Living was the first of these groundbreaking collections, and the second edition adds to what was already an illuminating volume several new essays that exemplify the increasing sophistication that this series has contributed to our understanding of Rand as a novelist and philosopher.
*Gregory Salmieri, University of North Carolina*