Back in 1926, twenty-one years old. Ayn Rand came to America as an ordinary emigrant from Russia, she could barely speak English, and hardly anyone could believe that after a short time she would write her best books, demonstrating excellent command of the language and the ability to convey complex philosophical ideas to the reader. .What topics worried young Ayn Rand when she was just learning to write? The book “The Husband I Bought” is a collection of the writer’s works, arranged in chronological order from the earliest period of her work. They are published for the first time. Among them are the stories “The Night King,” “The Husband I Bought,” “Her Second Career,” as well as excerpts that were not included in the final version of the novel “We the Living.” The book allows us to trace the formation and development of Ayn Rand’s literary talent from the first experiments to the work that later brought her fame. The collection “The Husband I Bought” is the 1st part of the book “The early Ayn Rand.”