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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com90THE EDUCATION OF AYN RAND, 1905–1943Rand had better luck with the New York Times, which gave TheFountainhead the best review of her career, in May, just a month after thebook was released. Lorine Pruette called Rand “a writer of great power”:“She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly,beautifully, bitterly.” Pruette went beyond the novel’s style andalso praised its content, writing that readers would be inspired to think“through some of the basic concepts of our times” and noting, “This isthe only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.”A host of lesser newspapers echoed her words. A reviewer in Pittsburghsaid The Fountainhead “could conceivably change the life of anyone whoread it,” and the Providence Journal wrote, “With one book [Rand] atonce takes a position of importance among contemporary Americannovelists.” The exceptions came primarily from more highbrow literaryoutlets like the Times Literary Supplement, which found, “Miss Randcan only create gargoyles, not characters,” and The Nation, where DianaTrilling sniffed about the book’s caricatures. 41By the summer The Fountainhead began to appear on best-seller lists,driven both by review attention and positive word-of-mouth recommendations.Paterson undoubtedly played a role in the book’s earlysuccess, for although she had declined to review The Fountainhead sheplumped Rand from the safe distance of her column, mentioning hereight times in 1943. 42 In these years Paterson was at the height of her fameas a book reviewer, and “Turns with a Bookworm” was valuable publicityfor Rand. Sales continued to grow into the fall, a development thatconfirmed Rand’s expectations but confounded most others, includingthe business office of her publisher. Against the advice of Rand’s editor,the press had printed only a small first run, expecting sales of ten thousandbooks at maximum. Soon they were scrambling to keep up withdemand. By year’s end they had sold nearly fifty thousand copies andgone through six printings. That Bobbs-Merrill failed to anticipate thebook’s success is understandable. The Fountainhead is a strange book,long, moody, feverish. Even after Rand’s furious last-minute editing ittook up nearly seven hundred pages.What was it that readers found in The Fountainhead’s pages? At themost basic level the book told an exciting story, and told it well. Whenfreighted with Rand’s symbolic connotations, architecture became excitingand lively. In one striking scene Rand portrays a rebellious action by