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        The Fountainhead


        setting

        New York City

        time

        1922

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1943

        page count

        753

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Howard Roark, Peter Keating, Dominique Francon

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        Howard Roark laughed. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to the sky over motionless water.

        last lines

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