Classic Cult Fiction
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- Full Title: Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature
- Author(s): Thomas Reed Whissen
- Year Published: 1992
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- Publication Type: Academic
- ISBN: 0-313-26550-X (hardcover)
- Description: Whissen discusses a variety of "cult" novels, including Rand's The Fountainhead.
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Chapters significantly related to Ayn Rand or Objectivism are indicated in bold.
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Cult Classics
- Against Nature, Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins
- Axel, Philippe Auguste Villiers De L'isle-Adam
- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Richard Fariña
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. JR. Miller
- The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
- Demian, Hermann Hesse
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
- The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
- Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
- Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- The Lord of the Rings, J. R.R. Tolkien
- Lost Horizon, James Hilton
- Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- The Outsider, Colin Wilson
- The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
- René, François-René De Chateaubriand
- A Separate Peace, John Knowles
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
- Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- The Stand, Stephen King
- Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
- The Stranger, Albert Camus
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos Castaneda
- This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Time and Again, Jack Finney
- Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur Clarke
- Walden Two, B. F. Skinner
- Warlock, Oakley Hall
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
- Chronological Listing of Cult Fiction
- Works Cited
- Bibliography of Primary Works: First and Current Editions
- Books for Further Reading
- Index
- Excerpt from the chapter that discusses The Fountainhead
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