Author

Publication

2005 - Plume, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

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Word Count

292000 words, Guess

Page Count

1168 pages

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • Goodreads9362
  • LibraryThing2791688
  • OCLC Control Number57396793
  • OCLC Control Number287605
  • Better World Books9780452286368
  • Open LibraryOL18433680M

Classifications

  • DDC813.52 R36a 2005
  • LCCPS3535.A547 A94 2005
  • LCCPZ3.R152 At
and 2 more
  • LCCPS3535.A547 At
  • 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.

Subjects

Topics

EgoismSuccessFictionCapitalismObjectivityIndividualityScience fiction

People

John GaltHank ReardenJames TaggartDagny TaggartFrancisco d'Anconia

Genres

  • Fiction

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