num_pages: 1069
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.Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and her last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. 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!!Alternate Cover: 0451191145 (ISBN13: 9780451191144)
language: English
title: Atlas Shrugged
titlecomplete: Atlas Shrugged
characters: Dagny Taggart, Atlas, James Taggart, Francisco d'Anconia, Prometheus (mythology), John Galt, Hank Rearden
genres: Literature, Audiobook, Science Fiction, Classics, Novels, Economics, Philosophy, Fiction, Politics, Dystopia
ratings_count: 384530
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, awardedAt: -378662400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Signet