| Atlas Shrugged Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Rand, Ayn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0451191145 ISBN-13: 9780451191144 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $10.79 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and 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. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00001796 |
| Lexile Measure: 990 |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 4.2" W x 6.9" (1.00 lbs) 1088 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 58696 Reading Level: 8.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 102.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill. Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism--her groundbreaking philosophy--offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century's leading artists. |