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.
LoC Classification |
PS3535.A547 .A94 1992 |
Dewey |
813.52 |
Cover Price |
$9.99 |
No. of Pages |
1088 |
Height x Width |
6.7
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4.1
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