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 \nTo the world,he was a startlinglysuccessful international tycoon,head of a vast financial empire.  \nTo his beautiful secretary-mis-tress,he was a god-like hero to beserved with her mind,soul,andbody.  \nTo his aristocratic young wife,hewas an elemental force of natureto be tamed.  \nTo his millionaire father-in-law,he was a giant whose single errorcould be used to destroy him.  \nWhat kind of man was BjornFaulkner?Only you,the reader,can decide.  \nOther Ayn Rand Titles from SIGNET  \n□ THE ROMANTIC MANIFESTO.Miss Rand analyzesthe basic principles of literature as well as thegoals she sets for herself in her own writing.Thischallenging,provocative philosophy of literature isone of Ayn Rand's most important books.  \n(\\#Q4484—95()  \n□ ATLAS SHRUGGED.The great bestseller that tellsthe story of what happens to the world when themen of the mind—the men of ability—go onstrike.(\\#E4444—$1.75)  \n□ THE FOUNTAINHEAD.The sensational bestsellerabout a rebellious genius who refused to lower hisstandards in life,work,or love.  \n□ WE THE LIVING.A tensely dramatic,powerfulnovel—set in Soviet Russia in the aftermath ofthe Revolution—of a woman's love for two menwho are ultimately destroyed by the system.  \nANTHEM.The story of a man who re-discoversindividualism and his own ego—in a world ofabsolute collectivism.  \n□ FOR THE NEW INTELLECTUAL.Ayn Rand setsforth the essentials of her philosophy,Objectiv-ism,in an essay and in selections from her novels,We the Living,Anthem,The Fountainhead,andAtlas Shrugged.(\\#T3370——75C)  \nTHE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY,INC.,P.O.Box 2310,GrandCentral Station,New York,New York 10017  \nPlease send me the SIGNET BOOKS I have checked above.Iam enclosing $                 (check or money order--nocurrency or C.0.D.'s).Please include the list price plus 15c acopy to cover mailing costs.(New York City residents add 6%Sales Tax.Other New York State residents add 3%plus anylocal sales or use taxes.)  \nName_  \nAddress.  \nCity——_StateZip Code.  \nNight ofJanuary 16th  \n# A Play byAYN RAND\n\nCoPYRIGHT 1933 BY AYN RANDCoPYRIGHT ◎ 1961,1968 BY AYN RAND  \nAll rights to Night of January 16th are the property of AynRand and fully protected by copyright.This play may not beperformed without permission.All requests for permissionshould be addressed to author's agent Curtis Brown Ltd.,60East 56 Street,New York,New York 10022.  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:68-56144  \nThis is an authorized reprint of a hardcover edition publishedby The World Publishing Company.The hardcover edition waspublished simultaneously in Canada by Nelson,Foster &ScottLtd.  \n8IGNET TRADEMARR REG.U.8.PAT,OFF.AND FORBIGN 00UNTRDBBREGISTERED TRADEMARK—MABCA REGISTBADAHEOHO EN OHICAGO,U.8.A.  \nSIGNET,SIGNET CLASSICS,SIGNETTE,MENTOR and PLUME BooKsare published by The New American Library,Inc.,1301 Avenue of the Americas,New York,New York 10019  \nFIRST PRINTING,JANUARY,1971  \nNight ofJanuary 16th  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nIFI WERE TO CLASSIFY Night of Janu-ary 16th in conventional literary terms,I wouldsay that it represents,not Romantic Realism,butRomantic Symbolism.For those acquainted withObjectivist aesthetics,I can name a more preciseclassification:Night of January 16th is not aphilosophical,but a sense-of-life play.  \nA sense of life is a preconceptual equivalent ofmetaphysics,an emotional,subconsciously inte-grated appraisal of man's relationship to exis-tence.I emphasize this last because it is a man'sattitude toward life that constitutes the core andmotor of his subconscious philosophy.Every workof fiction(and wider:every work of art)is theproduct and expression of its author's sense oflife.But it may express that sense of life trans-lated into conceptual,i.e.,philosophical,terms,orit may express only an abstract emotional sum.Night of January 16th is a pure,untranslatedabstraction.  \nThis means that its events are not to be takenliterally;they dramatize certain fundamental psy-chological characteristic","cbCaiabBW7ctaGm5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiabBW7ctaGm5","pdf",3751222,134,"English","# Introduction","[{\"question\":\"How should Night of January 16th be classified in conventional literary terms?\",\"answer\":\"It is not Romantic Realism; it is presented as Romantic Symbolism. 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