We the Living was first published by Macmillan in 1936. Owing to the publisher’s neglect, it went out of print the following year. Over twenty years later, after the publication of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand revised We the Living for its reissue in 1959, making more than 3,000 changes. In this lecture Dr. Mayhew discusses the nature, extent and significance of these revisions, which range from minor corrections of typographical errors to the rewriting or cutting of entire paragraphs. Special attention is given to the novel’s love scenes, and to those passages in the original which seem to reflect Ayn Rand’s early interest in Friedrich Nietzsche.