01397nam a22001817a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100120008308200210009510000130011624500190012926000340014830000290018252009530021165000290116465000220119320250614093454.0250610b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780451191144  cAL  aEnglish  223a813.52bRANA  aAyn Rand  aAtlas shrugged  aNew YorkbA Signet Bookc1996  a1078p.bPBc17.5x10.5cm.  aPublished 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.  2EnglishaScience fiction  aAdventure fiction