Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four 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 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?

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 woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest trackworker in her Terminal tunnels.

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's masterpiece.

It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.