Atlas Shrugged
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Book Info
Author
Rand, Ayn
Word Count
272,000 words
based on page count
Pages
1,088 pages
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Edition Publisher
Signet
Edition Publish Date
1996-01-01
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0451191145
ISBN-13: 9780451191144
Description
The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand’s Centennial Year. The astounding story of a man that said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read. “A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.”—The New York Times
Encyclopedia of Literature
The book's female protagonist, Dagny Taggart, struggles to manage a transcontinental railroad amid the pressures and restrictions of massive bureaucracy. Her antagonistic reaction to a libertarian group seeking an end to government regulation is later echoed and modified in her encounter with a utopian community, Galt's Gulch, whose members regard self-determination rather than collective responsibility as the highest ideal.
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