Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

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1957

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New York, New York, USA

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Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame, 1983)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Reader's List, 1)

Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (92)

National Book Award finalist (Fiction, 1958)

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1957)

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This is one of those books that I just cant get out of my head. At one point after reading it I marked all the pages with my favorite parts with little pieces of paper. It looked like the book cut itself shaving...alot.

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0452011876, Paperback)

At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback.

With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers.

Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man's spirit.

* Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club

(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:58:11 -0500)

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