This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite. of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy. and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.