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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-n ominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American... Read Full Overview

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-n ominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American... Read Full Overview

A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the saga of the enigmatic John Galt, and his ambitious plan to 'stop the motor of the world', published in Penguin Modern Classics.

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--n ominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great... Read Full Overview

Una novela trepidante y una indagaci n filos fica sobre la libertad y la raz n

LA ECONOM A DE ESTADOS UNIDOS SE ENCUENTRA EN RUINAS. Las empresas cierran, en las tiendas es imposible encontrar los productos b sicos y la poblaci n empieza a perder... Read Full Overview

Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in1957, has been a bestseller for more than fourdecades as well as an intellectual landmark. Itis the story of a man who said that he wouldstop the motor of the world--and did. Was he adestroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why didhe... Read Full Overview

Pourquoi le monde semble-t-il se detraquer ?Pourquoi, sans raison apparente, un sentiment de desespoir et de frustration se repand-il partout ?Pourquoi, dans les pires moments, entend-on ce nom, sans visage et sans origine ?

Atlas Shrugged is the second most influential book for Americans today after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991.

In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory,... Read Full Overview

"Who is John Galt?" is the immortal question posed at the beginning of Ayn Rand's masterpiece. The answer is the astonishing story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world'and did. As passionate as it is profound, "Atlas Shrugged" is one of the most influential... Read Full Overview