Author

Publication

1996 - Signet

Language

English

Word Count

274,000 words, Guess

Page Count

1,096 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveatlasshrugged00rand
  • ISBN-100451191145
  • ISBN-139780451191144
  • LibraryThing2791688
  • Goodreads477543
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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

People

John GaltHank ReardenDagny TaggartJames TaggartFrancisco d'Anconia

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