Author

Publication

2001-10-01 - Tandem Library

Language

English

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Word Count

0 words, Guess

Page Count

0 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100613357663
  • ISBN-139780613357661
  • LibraryThing2791688
  • Open LibraryOL7599536M

Description

Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, 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 train tunnels. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.

First Sentence

"Who is John Galt?"

Subjects

Topics

EgoismSuccessFictionCapitalismObjectivityIndividualityScience fiction

People

John GaltHank ReardenJames TaggartDagny TaggartFrancisco d'Anconia

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