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Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most--and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor--and the motive power of every man? Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life--from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, "Atlas Shrugged" is Ayn Rand's masterpiece. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.
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Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
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- Released
- 1991
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- Title
- Atlas Shrugged
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ayn Rand
- Publisher
- Signet
- Released
- 1991
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0451168283
- ISBN13
- 9780451168283
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Philosophical Topics, Science Fiction, Classics, Politics, American Literature, Adapted for Film, Communism, Ethics, Capitalism, Utopia, Objectivism
- First published
- 1957
- Original title
- Atlas Shrugged
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most--and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor--and the motive power of every man? Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life--from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, "Atlas Shrugged" is Ayn Rand's masterpiece. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.