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Published 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.
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A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity ofwriting brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly. -- The New York Times--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly. (The New York Times)--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
作者简介
Born February 2, 1905, Ayn Rand published her first novel, We the Living,in 1936. Anthem followed in 1938. It was with the publication of The Fountainhead(1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) that she achieved her spectacular success. Ms. Rand’sunique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a worldwide audience. The fundamentals of herphilosophy are put forth in three nonfiction books, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology,The Virtue of Selfishness, and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. They are all availablein Signet editions, as is the magnificent statement of her artistic credo, The RomanticManifesto.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
| 出版社 | Penguin |
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| 作者 | Ayn Rand |