Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than three decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It 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 the 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? These are
questions 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 riveting mystery, not about a murder of a man's body, but about a murder - and rebirth - of man's spirit...
