Atlas Shrugged Hardcover - 2005
by Ayn Rand
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
About this book
Ayn Rand in her most controversial book yet, depicts a dystopian United State. A world of private businesses that are increasingly penalized and weighted through laws and regulations, stepping over the people who carry out that labor.
As a mysterious figure, John Gault appears on the scene; the country’s top banker, an oil producer, a professor, a composer, and a distinguished judge disappear without a trace, abandoning their professions and loved ones. In turn a revolution begins, creating a new society based on the ‘philosophy of selfishness’ in efforts to be dismissed from the exploitation of those with authority and power.
Atlas Shrugged “is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man’s body, but about the murder — and rebirth — of man’s spirit.” -Ayn RandSummary
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor - and the motive power of every man? 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 characters in this story." "Tremendous in its scope, 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 composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph - to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad - to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels." This is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of man's spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events.
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Random House published a First Edition, First Printing hardcover in 1957, New York. This edition was published with a blue cloth-board slipcase and blue tinted page-edges. The book is characterized by its blue cloth bound boards and gilt lettering.
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- Title Atlas Shrugged
- Author Ayn Rand
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Centennial
- Pages 1200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New American Library, New York
- Date 2005-04-21
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780525948926 / 0525948929
- Weight 2.7 lbs (1.22 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 2.3 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 5.84 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 990
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Adventure fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009290777
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New Yorker (The), 11/09/2009, Page 63
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