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Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

These pictures were taken in London 2009.

Daphne du Maurier was an English author and playwright. Rebecca was first published in 1938.

Rebecca has been adapted to cinema in 1940 by Alfred Hitchcock.

In 2007 BBC released a TV drama, Daphne, based on the biography by Margaret Forster.

"There were no dark trees here, no tangled undergrowth, but on either side of the narrow path stood azaleas and rhododendrons, not blood-coloured like the giants in the drive, but salmon, white, and gold, things of beauty and of grace, drooping their lovely, delicate heads in the soft summer rain."

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The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

This picture was taken in Utrecht in 2008.

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum), was a Russian-American novelist and philosopher.The Fountainhead was first published in 1943.
It’s commonly believed that Frank Lloyd Wright served as inspiration for the Howard Roark character in the novel.

The Fountainhead was adapted to cinema in 1949.

Two movies have been made about Rand's life. A 1997 documentary film, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, and The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999), based on the book of the same name by Barbara Branden.

"Sometimes, he was asked to show his sketches; he extended them across a desk, feeling a contraction of shame in the muscles of his hand; it was like having the clothes torn off his body, and the shame was not, that his body was exposed, but that it was exposed to indifferent eyes."