Author

Publication

1999-08-01 - Plume

Language

English

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Word Count

300000 words, Guess

Page Count

1200 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100452011876
  • ISBN-139780452011878
  • Goodreads662
  • LibraryThing2791688
  • Better World Books9780452011878
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPS3535.A547A94 1992

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

Other Editions

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