Bibliograph

Atlas shrugged, Ayn Rand

Type

Label

Atlas shrugged, Ayn Rand

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

990L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Atlas shrugged

Responsibility statement

Ayn Rand

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 8.2, 102, 58696

Summary

The book's female protagonist, Dagny Taggart, struggles to manage a transcontinental railroad amid the pressures and restrictions of massive bureaucracy. Her antagonistic reaction to a libertarian group seeking an end to government regulation is later echoed and modified in her encounter with a utopian community, Galt's Gulch, whose members regard self-determination rather than collective responsibility as the highest ideal

Table Of Contents

Part I. Non-contradiction -- I. The theme -- II. The chain -- III. The top and the bottom -- IV. The immovable movers -- V. The climax of the d'Anconias -- VI. The non-commercial -- VII. The exploiters and the exploited -- VIII. The John Galt line -- IX. The sacred and the profane -- X. Wyatt's torch --Part II. Either-or -- I. The man who belonged on Earth -- II. The aristocracy of pull -- III. White blackmail -- IV. The sanction of the victim -- V. Account overdrawn -- VI. Miracle metal -- VII. The moratorium on brains -- VIII. By our love -- IX. The face without pain or fear or guilt -- X. The sign of the dollar --Part III. A is A -- I. Atlantis -- II. The utopia of greed -- III. Anti-greed -- IV. Anti-life -- V. Their brothers' keepers -- VI. The concerto of deliverance -- VII. "This is John Galt speaking" -- VIII. The egoist -- IX. The generator -- X. In the name of the best within us

Target audience

adult

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