by Ayn Rand
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See customer reviews on Amazon →A sprawling ideological novel set in a dystopian America where productive industrialists and creators go on strike against a society that shackles them with regulation and collective guilt. The plot follows railroad executive Dagny Taggart as she fights to keep her company running while the most capable minds mysteriously disappear. At well over a thousand pages, it is less a novel than a philosophical argument dressed in fiction—the characters deliver extended speeches on individualism, rational self-interest, and the moral evil of altruism. It polarizes because it demands you take a side.
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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…
Difficulty:hard
Length:1,193 pages (Long)
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